Vaccination progress (full doses): South District Suburban Region State 12% 14.7% 18.69% Region 10 (includes H-F) Positive test rate: 5.1% ↑ Consecutive days under 8% test positivity: 75 Consecutive days ICU beds over 20% threshold: 94 Days of COVID-19 patient decreases or stable: 187 (Source: IDPH. Updated April 5) Homewood Cases: 1,549 (+12) (since[Read More…]
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COVID-19 numbers: April 4
Vaccination progress (full doses): South District Suburban Region State 11.9% 14.4% 18.59% Region 10 (includes H-F) Positive test rate: 4.9% Consecutive days under 8% test positivity: 74 Consecutive days ICU beds over 20% threshold: 93 Days of COVID-19 patient decreases or stable: 187 (Source: IDPH. Updated April 1) Homewood Cases: 1,537 (+5) (since[Read More…]
COVID-19 numbers: April 3
Vaccination progress (full doses): South District Suburban Region State 11.9% 14.4% 18.23% Region 10 (includes H-F) Positive test rate: 4.9% ↑ Consecutive days under 8% test positivity: 73 Consecutive days ICU beds over 20% threshold: 92 Days of COVID-19 patient decreases or stable: 187 (Source: IDPH. Updated March 31) Homewood Cases: 1,537 (+5) (since[Read More…]
COVID-19 numbers: April 2
Vaccination progress (full doses): South District Suburban Region State 11.9% 14.4% 17.75% Region 10 (includes H-F) Positive test rate: 4.8% ↑ Consecutive days under 8% test positivity: 72 Consecutive days ICU beds over 20% threshold: 91 Days of COVID-19 patient decreases or stable: 187 (Source: IDPH. Updated March 29) Homewood Cases: 1,537 (+5) (since[Read More…]
COVID-19 numbers: April 1
Vaccination progress (full doses): South District Suburban Region State 11.4% 13.8% 17.3% Region 10 (includes H-F) Positive test rate: 5% ↑ Consecutive days under 8% test positivity: 71 Consecutive days ICU beds over 20% threshold: 90 Days of COVID-19 patient decreases or stable: 187 (Source: IDPH. Updated March 29) Homewood Cases: 1,532 (+4) (since[Read More…]
COVID-19 numbers: March 31
Vaccination progress (full doses): South District Suburban Region State 11.4% 13.8% 16.96% Region 10 (includes H-F) Positive test rate: 4.9% ↑ Consecutive days under 8% test positivity: 70 Consecutive days ICU beds over 20% threshold: 89 Days of COVID-19 patient decreases or stable: 187 (Source: IDPH. Updated March 28) Homewood Cases: 1,528 (+2) (since the[Read More…]
Clone of COVID-19 numbers: March 30
Vaccination progress (full doses): South District Suburban Region State 11.2% 13.5% 16.56% Region 10 (includes H-F) Positive test rate: 4.8% ↑ Consecutive days under 8% test positivity: 69 Consecutive days ICU beds over 20% threshold: 88 Days of COVID-19 patient decreases or stable: 187 (Source: IDPH. Updated March 27) Homewood Cases: 1,526 (+3) (since the[Read More…]
COVID-19 numbers: March 29
Vaccination progress (full doses): South District Suburban Region State 11% 13.3% 16.34% Region 10 (includes H-F) Positive test rate: 4.7% ↑ Consecutive days under 8% test positivity: 68 Consecutive days ICU beds over 20% threshold: 87 Days of COVID-19 patient decreases or stable: 187 (Source: IDPH. Updated March 26) Homewood Cases: 1,523 (+13) (since[Read More…]
COVID-19 numbers: March 28
Vaccination progress (full doses): South District Suburban Region State 10.4% 12.7% 16.2% Region 10 (includes H-F) Positive test rate: 4.5% ↑ Consecutive days under 8% test positivity: 67 Consecutive days ICU beds over 20% threshold: 86 Days of COVID-19 patient decreases or stable: 187 (Source: IDPH. Updated March 25) Homewood Cases: 1,510 (since the[Read More…]
State health officials ramp up vaccinations as infections begin to rise again
After dropping steadily from a mid-November high numbers, the statewide COVID-19 positivity and hospitalization rates began to edge back up in recent days, causing concern among state health officials. To address a possible trend, officials announced on Friday the launch of Rapid Response Vaccination Teams to five counties and the[Read More…]


