Month: July 2021

Dr. Peter Hotez, a vaccinologist and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, told CNN's Anderson Cooper Tuesday that if vaccination rates among adults and kids 12 and older continue to lag amid increased spread of the virus, the youngest members of the population will be most affected. "Transmission will continue to accelerate ... and the ones who will also pay the price, in addition to the unvaccinated adolescents, are the little kids who depend on the adults and adolescents to get vaccinated in order to slow or halt transmission." In 46 states, the rates of new cases this past week are at least 10% higher than the rates of new cases the previous week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In Los Angeles County, the country's most populou...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois public health officials reported 578 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 and 12 related deaths Tuesday. There have been 1,397,667 total COVID cases, including 23,336 deaths in the state since the pandemic began. The preliminary seven-day statewide test positivity from July 6-13 is at 2.1%. May 30, 2021 was the last time the state's test positivity was that high. Chicago COVID vaccine map shows how many residents vaccinated by zip code As COVID-19 cases rise in Illinois, health officials are tracking the trend to a rise in cases downstate, home to Illinois' lowest vaccinations rates. "We are seeing more cases in places where the vaccination rates are lower and that is concerning," said Dr. Rachel Bernard, medical director, Chicago Department of Public H...

With nearly half of California residents still not fully immunized against COVID-19 and the highly infectious delta variant in wide circulation, the state could be facing a surge up to two-thirds the size of last summer’s wave of infection despite generally high vaccination rates, health officials said Tuesday. If such a surge materializes, it almost certainly will be far less deadly and disruptive than what the state endured over the winter, when more than 22,000 Californians died between Thanksgiving and the end of January and the state was largely shut down for several months. People who are not vaccinated are bearing the vast majority of disease burden, making up over 99% of hospitalizations and deaths, state officials said, and that trend is expected to continue. ...

As the delta variant has become California's predominant strain, several counties in the Sacramento region are noticing an uptick in cases."Mass gatherings, especially indoors, in combination with unvaccinated people and in addition to the delta variant which is highly transmissible," said Dr. Lorena García, a professor of epidemiology at the UC Davis School of Medicine.The statewide case rate is 3.8 new cases per 100,000 people.Currently, Sacramento is at 9.3, followed by Stanislaus and Placer counties at less than five, and Yolo County at 1.9 new cases per 100,000.According to Frank Schneegas, a spokesperson with Yolo County, those numbers are mostly a reflection of unvaccinated people; out of 115,000 fully vaccinated residents, only 82 have tested positive for COVID-19, so they're...