Coronavirus Cases In Oak Forest: Where We Stand In 2021

Oak Forest IL

04 January, 2021

9:00 AM

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OAK FOREST, IL — 2020 was a year for the books. While many rang in the new year with optimism, the coronavirus pandemic has yet to disappear. The pandemic has been upon us for nearly a year and cases continue to fluctuate here in Illinois. After several weeks of cases declining, new cases and deaths are both rising again. Vaccinations started across the state in December, but federal officials say the process has been slow and distribution is behind schedule. Excluding the City of Chicago, 108,225 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 161,400 doses of the Moderna vaccine had been delivered across the state as of Dec. 29, Gov. J.B. Pritzker's office said. Johns Hopkins University and Medicine reports there have been a total of 85,088,854 COVID-19 cases around the world— as of Jan. 3. Over 20 million of those cases are here in the United States. As of Dec. 31, Cook County has had a total of 175,510 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH). Cook has also reported 3,331 deaths since the start of the pandemic, and a 9.3 percent test positivity rate in the last week. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 2,088 cases have been reported in Oak Forest. The county health department reported 95 new cases in the city last week. The village has a negative 21.1 percent decrease in confirmed cases, according to the CCDPH. Numbers are updated every Wednesday. Across suburban Cook County, the positivity rate and the rate of hospital admissions has been rising sharply. The Illinois Department of Public Health reported that there are 3,817 people across Illinois in the hospital for COVID-19 or are under investigation. About 17 percent of hospital beds are being occupied by these patients and 798 of these patients are in the ICU, as of Jan. 3. Illinois occupies a total of 5,716 ventilators and 1,471 ventilators are in use as of Jan. 3. The IDPH reports 462 ventilators are being used by COVID patients, as of Sunday. IDPH said 74 percent of the state's ventilators are available.