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St. Charles Nears 3,000-Case Milestone As Coronavirus Surges
More than 1,000 people in St. Charles tested positive in the first three weeks of November, public health data shows.
ST. CHARLES, IL — St. Charles is quickly closing in on its 3,000th coronavirus case after experiencing its biggest surge of the pandemic earlier this month, according to public health data.
More than 1,000 people in St. Charles tested positive in the first three weeks of November, more than a third of the city’s total cases.
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Six months passed between the city’s first case and 1,000th case, which was recorded Sept. 18. St. Charles recorded its 2,000th case seven weeks later on Nov. 6, according to statistics from the Illinois Department of Health.
St. Charles saw an average of 33 cases per day between Nov. 15 and Nov. 21, the most recent day for which municipality-specific data is available. If that rate holds, the city would surpass 3,000 total coronavirus cases sometime this weekend, just three weeks after recording its 2,000th case.
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New cases in St. Charles grew at record rates between Oct. 20 and Nov. 8, when the city’s seven-day rolling average hit its highest point at nearly 69 cases per day.
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Its seven-day rolling average — a measure that accounts for daily fluctuations in testing to show longer-term trends in coronavirus data — dropped to 33 cases by Nov. 21, though that’s still 50 percent higher than it was at any point before Oct. 16, the state’s data shows.
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Before Oct. 23, St. Charles had only once confirmed more than 40 new cases in a single day. Since then, it has recorded 40 or more cases on 15 days. That surge led St. Charles to record 1,008 new coronavirus cases within the first three weeks of November.
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Seventeen St. Charles residents have died from COVID-19, as of Nov. 21, according to the state’s data. Eleven of those deaths have been linked to long-term-care facilities, including seven at Autumn Leaves of St. Charles, public health data shows.
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