Knox County's COVID transmission rate medium; new cases stay down
GALESBURG — The weekly number of new COVID cases in Knox County remains the lowest in two months, although one death was reported.
Knox County reported 57 cases and one death in the latest week. Throughout the pandemic it has reported 14,849 cases and 226 deaths.
A week earlier, Knox County had reported 56 cases and zero deaths.
New weekly COVID cases
100 cases - Aug. 1-7
117 cases - Aug. 8-14
72 cases - Aug. 15-21
89 cases - Aug. 22-28
126 cases - Aug. 29- Sept. 4
97 cases - Sept. 5-11
56 cases - Sept. 12-18
57 cases - Sept. 19-24
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Knox County remains in medium category for COVID transmission. All area counties are either medium risk or low risk for COVID transmission.
Low transmission rate
• Henry County
• Mercer County
• McDonough County
• Stark
Medium transmission rate
• Fulton
• Knox County
• Peoria
• Warren County
Knox County Health Department offering free test kits
The Knox Community Health Center at the Health Department offers COVID-19 testing on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. –2:30 p.m. Same day appointment may be made by calling 309-344-2225 beginning at 7:15 a.m. Additionally, health care providers, as well as local pharmacies, in the community offer COVID-19 testing options.
Additionally, Knox Community Health Center staff will be at the following locations offering free COVID-19 self-test kits and N95 masks while supplies last. There is a limit of two test kits per household and three N95 masks per person.
Wednesday, September 28th at Galesburg Public Library, 40 E. Simmons Street from 9:30 am–11:30 am
Wednesday, September 28th at Corpus Christi Church, 273 S. Prairie St., Galesburg from 1:00 pm – 2pm
Schedule COVID vaccine with health department
Knox County Health Department provides COVID-19 vaccine by appointment only on Monday and Friday from 8:30 am-3:30 pm. At the Health Department. To schedule an appointment, residents should call 309-344-2224.
The Pfizer COVID-19 primary vaccine is authorized for infants 6 months of age and up.
The bivalent Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is authorized for use as a single booster dose in individuals 12 years of age and older as long as it has been at least two months since they have completed their primary vaccination series or since their most recent booster dose with any authorized or approved monovalent COVID-19 vaccine.
The Moderna COVID-19 primary vaccine is authorized for anyone 6 months of age and older.
The bivalent Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is authorized for use as a single booster dose in individuals 18 years of age and older as long as it has been at least two months since they have completed their primary vaccination series or since their most recent booster dose with any authorized or approved monovalent COVID-19 vaccine.
Illinois COVID cases holding steady
Illinois reported 17,373 new cases of coronavirus in the week ending Sunday, from 17,584 the week before of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Illinois ranked 13th among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week coronavirus cases in the United States decreased 0.6% from the week before, with 401,433 cases reported. With 3.81% of the country's population, Illinois had 4.33% of the country's cases in the last week. Across the country, 17 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.
Within Illinois, the worst weekly outbreaks on a per-person basis were in Hardin County with 393 cases per 100,000 per week; Lawrence County with 313; and Lake County with 263. The Centers for Disease Control says high levels of community transmission begin at 100 cases per 100,000 per week.
Adding the most new cases overall were Cook County, with 7,654 cases; Lake County, with 1,833 cases; and DuPage County, with 1,050. Weekly case counts rose in 20 counties from the previous week. The worst increases from the prior week's pace were in Cook, Lake and DuPage counties.
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Across Illinois, cases fell in 78 counties, with the best declines in Will County, with 740 cases from 1,118 a week earlier; in Kane County, with 541 cases from 744; and in Champaign County, with 246 cases from 442. ​
In Illinois, 88 ​ people were reported dead of COVID-19 in the week ending Sunday. In the week before that, 91 people were reported dead.
A total of 3,751,275 people in Illinois have tested positive for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, and 39,624 people have died from the disease, Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the United States 96,070,980 people have tested positive and 1,056,416 people have died.
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Illinois's COVID-19 hospital admissions staying flat
USA TODAY analyzed federal hospital data as of Sunday, Sept. 25. Likely COVID patients admitted in the state:
Last week: 2,837
The week before that: 2,888
Four weeks ago: 3,153
Likely COVID patients admitted in the nation:
Last week: 55,707
The week before that: 55,506
Four weeks ago: 64,244
Hospitals in 13 states reported more COVID-19 patients than a week earlier, while hospitals in 20 states had more COVID-19 patients in intensive-care beds. Hospitals in 25 states admitted more COVID-19 patients in the latest week than a week prior, the USA TODAY analysis of U.S. Health and Human Services data shows.
Mike Stucka USA TODAY NETWORK helped with this story. The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control. If you have questions about the data or the story, contact Mike Stucka at mstucka@gannett.com.
This article originally appeared on Galesburg Register-Mail: Knox County reported 57 additional COVID-19 cases this week this week
