Updated 7/15/2021 7:02 PM
DuPage and Kane counties have been red-flagged by the Illinois Department of Public Health for rising COVID-19 hospitalizations, nearly all involving unvaccinated patients, officials said Thursday. The Kane County Health Department is seeing a slight uptick in cases overall with 11 cases admitted to the hospital between July 8 and Wednesday all unvaccinated, agency spokeswoman Susan Stark said.
Also Thursday, Cook County leaders announced the three remaining mass vaccination sites, including one in Des Plaines, will close next week as the workload shrinks to 100 to 150 shots a day.
Instead, the county will shift to a hyperlocal approach to inoculate people in vulnerable minority communities as the highly infectious COVID-19 delta variant proliferates, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle said.
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