United States: In Chicago, Illinois has reported 5,447 new COVID-19 cases as well as zero deaths on Monday.
There have been about 3,226,197 total cases as of Monday, including about 33,710 related deaths in the state since the pandemic started.
Moreover, as of Sunday night, 996 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the health care centre with COVID-1. Of those, 86 patients were in the Intensive Care Unit, and 29 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators. IDPH said 23% of ICU beds are available.
IDPH officials noticed a seven-day case average of 333 per-1,00,000 individuals. The Chicago Department of Public Health continued to strongly recommend wearing facial masks in public indoor spaces as Chicago remained at the “medium” COVID community level.
A maximum number of 22,134,019 vaccine doses have been administered in Illinois as of Sunday, and 64.83 percent of the state’s population is completely vaccinated. The seven(7)-day rolling average of vaccines administered daily is 12,808.
Along with this, Angela Mitchell mentioned in the statement has never felt better, but it took a long time for the 61-year-old to bounce back from COVID at the time of the summer of 2020.
Mitchell stated, “When this thing hit, it took me off my feet.”
Mitchell has spent several days at Northwestern Hospital, where she almost died. Mitchell still gets emotional when thinking about the day she went home.
“I have three daughters, a husband, and six grandchildren, and I was happy to get home. And when I saw them, I said, ‘Thank you, Lord.”
Ma highlighted, “I think the message is that we should have a more comprehensive response and preparedness plan that prioritises chronic disease prevention control.”
In addition, Ma outlined the pandemic should become syndemic rather than endemic, meaning a focus on COVID and chronic diseases together.
Furthermore, Ma stated, “If we don’t act, I think we can continue seeing unnecessary death.”
