While COVID-19 hospitalizations have spiked 42% in two weeks, the state is still in much better shape than this time of year in 2021 and 2020.
The 1,505 COVID-19 patients being treated in hospitals throughout the state represents a 42% increase from just two weeks ago.
According to Illinois Department of Public Health records, hospitals were treating more than 5,100 COVID-19 patients two years ago, with 21% of those patients requiring ICU beds. At that time, vaccines were not yet available. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just 16% of the eligible population of residents 5 and older have received an updated bivalent vaccine booster that targets the current dominant strains of the virus.
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