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Oct 16, 2020 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
10/16 COVID-19 in Illinois thread begins here.
4,554 new cases, 87,759 tests run.
5.18% positivity rate for this batch. (was 5.98% yesterday)
State's 7-day rolling avg. positivity rate increases again to: 5.1%
New single-day state records today:
4,554 new cases is a single-day record, breaking the old record of 4,015, which was set yesterday.
87,759 tests run in a single day. Smashes the single-day record by about 15,000, as @IDPH now adds in Antigen testing.
Oct 15, 2020 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
10/15 COVID-19 in Illinois thread begins here.
4,015 new cases, 67,086 tests run.
5.98% positivity rate for this batch. (was 5.43% yesterday)
State's 7-day rolling avg. positivity rate increases again to: 4.9%
4,015 new cases is a single-day record, breaking the old record of 4,014, which was set on May 12.
The pandemic in Illinois in full, this is cases.
(Yes there is a 5,368 day in there from September, that was a backlog being filled, 3 days of data there).
Oct 14, 2020 • 26 tweets • 4 min read
10/14 COVID-19 in Illinois thread begins here.
2,862 new cases, 52,669 tests run.
5.43% positivity rate for this batch. (was 5.09% yesterday)
State's 7-day rolling avg. positivity rate increases again to: 4.6%
.@GovPritzker is giving a news conference right now too, will tweet anything interesting that comes out of it.
Pritzker says he has one message for regions with increasing positivity rates.
"Mask up."
Jul 5, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
7/5 COVID-19 in Illinois thread begins here.
A heads up that some testing sites were closed yesterday. Numbers could be wonky.
27,235 tests performed in the past 24 hours, 639 new cases.
Positive rate: 2.34% (was 2.54 yesterday)
7-day average remains: 2.6%
Only 6 COVID-19 deaths announced in Illinois.
That is the fewest since March 25 (3 deaths that day)
