COVID-19 Testing In Wilmette Area: Where To Find Locations

Jonah Meadows
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WILMETTE, IL — With holiday gatherings and the emerging omicron surge of coronavirus combining to send demand for tests skyrocketing past supplies, an increasing number of North Shore residents have been seeking COVID-19 testing but have found it unavailable or difficult to obtain.

COVID-19 test positivity in suburban Cook County rose to 7.8 percent, as of Monday, according to the Cook County Department of Public Health.

There were nearly 240,000 tests performed in the county during the week ending Dec. 18, the most recent data available from the Illinois Department of Public Health.

In Wilmette, there were 154 new cases reported for the week, with a 206 percent increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases for the first two weeks of December, compared to prior fortnight. The village's weekly case rate is 547 per 100,000 people — almost exactly the same as the suburban Cook County average of 548.

According to the Cook County Department of Public Health, the vaccination rate in the village is more than 90 percent. Since the start of the pandemic, 23 Wilmette residents have died of COVID-19, including two during the past six months — most recently in September, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

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Locations offering COVID-19 testing in the north suburbs include:

Find more testing locations from the Pritzker administration's coronavirus response website.

This article originally appeared on the Wilmette-Kenilworth Patch