One in four CPS elementary students is vaccinated, with rates varying widely by school
New data show about 53% of high schoolers are vaccinated. Use WBEZ’s tool to look up vaccinations rates for your Chicago school.
New data show about 53% of high schoolers are vaccinated. Use WBEZ’s tool to look up vaccinations rates for your Chicago school.
CPS says a switch in reporting data at the school level was not meant to mislead, but some say it shows an undercount of cases.
People shed the virus through their nose and mouth and in their poop! The city is using sewage data to help keep tabs on transmission.
And, across Illinois, the COVID-19 death rate is 22 times higher for the unvaccinated than for fully inoculated residents as breakthrough cases appear to be far less lethal.
The unvaccinated are fueling a bleak third wave of COVID in Cook County, with weekly death tolls four-fold than just a month ago.
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About 88% of intensive care beds at city hospitals were occupied as of Saturday as health care workers see an influx of mostly unvaccinated residents.
More children in Illinois are being hospitalized with COVID-19, but officials say they aren’t seeing the virus raging in schools.
The mitigations aimed at indoor businesses and their patrons come in a response to an “alarming rise” in COVID-19 cases nationally and locally, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Tuesday.
Dr. Allison Arwady, the city’s public health commissioner, said she expects the variant to show up in the coming weeks or, possibly, days.