PEORIA, Ill. — Hospitalizations for Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford Counties went down over the weekend, as the region looks like it will be spared for the time being from being bumped back to phase three of Restore Illinois.
45 tri-county residents as of Monday were in hospitals.
That number was at 49 as of Friday, after a slew of daily increases of hospitalizations, which caused alarm with local and state leaders, and even gave Governor J.B. Pritzker cause to come to town to issue a warning about potential consequences if the region’s hospitalization rate continued to go up.
The region to which Peoria, Tazewell, and Woodford belong also encompasses McLean, Livingston, Grundy, Kendall, LaSalle, Putnam, Bureau, Stark, Fulton, McDonough, Warren, Henderson, Mercer, Henry, Rock Island, and Knox Counties.
Rolling seven-day hospitalization rate is one metric the Illinois Department of Public Health uses to determine whether a region should stay in its current phase. The other metric is the rolling seven-day positivity rate.
In that arena, the area remained at a warning level.
That number was at 4.8% as of Friday. The tri-county over the weekend and into Monday experienced 153 new cases of coronavirus.
509 Peoria County residents were considered to be in home isolation. 27 were in hospitals.
The county’s death toll rose to 32 after a woman in her 70s passed away.
She was not a long-term care facility resident.
146 Tazewell County residents were at home isolating. Ten were hospitalized.
Woodford County doesn’t break its numbers down like the other two counties, though the county did reach the 100 case mark during the weekend.
The area’s recovery rate dropped all the way to 58%. Home isolation rate rose all the way to 33.5%.
Just under 2% of area cases were hospitalized.
