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Five nursing homes and retirement communities in McLean County have now gone a month without a new case of COVID-19, leading the Illinois Department of Public Health to remove them from the list of active outbreaks.
Four other facilities in the county have gone two weeks without a new case, but remain on the active roll.
In fact, there has been just one new COVID case at a long-term care facility in the county in the last week, and only three the week before as vaccinations of the elderly population take hold. Seven facilities remain on the active list half the number at the peak of outbreaks.
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The McLean County Health Department (MCHD) on Monday reported 133 new confirmed and probable cases, as the rolling testing positivity rate dropped to 5.4% the lowest level since Nov. 1.
Hospitalizations and bed capacity held mostly steady over the weekend. There are 22 people from McLean County hospitalized with COVID-19. That’s one more patient than Friday. About one in five hospital beds are available (21%). That includes more than 30% of intensive care beds.
The active caseload sits at 561, with 539 people isolating at home. An additional 175 people are now considered recovered.
More than 8,000 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in McLean County, according to health department Administrator Jessica McKnight. That’s up about 500 over the weekend.