City data shows more than 1.44 million Chicagoans - or 53.6 percent of all residents - have gotten fully vaccinated.Illinois and Chicago have administered at least 13,393,429 vaccine doses of the 15,159,305 provided to them.Across the state, 24,965 vaccine doses are being administered per day, based on a seven-day rolling average.In Illinois, about 6.6 million people of all ages - or 52 percent of the state’s 12.7 million people - have gotten all their COVID-19 vaccine shots, according to state data.“As Delta has been getting here a lot of people have been taking advantage and getting that vaccine, which is good to see,” Arwady said. They have been shown to largely prevent serious illness and death from COVID-19. The vaccines are free and do not require insurance. This wave has had the deepest impact among unvaccinated people, who account for the vast majority of people hospitalized with and dying from COVID-19 in recent months, officials have said.Īs Delta has spread, slightly more Chicago residents are again getting vaccinated, which is a positive, Arwady said. RELATED: 12 States Added To Chicago’s Travel Advisory, Biggest Addition To List In Months “The whole state is definitely getting hard, but a lot of the rest of the country is, unfortunately, getting hit even harder,” Arwady said. The local surge has not been as bad as in other places, like Florida and Texas, where some hospitals have been overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients.Īnd Chicago - which is among the most-vaccinated parts of Illinois - is faring better than southern Illinois, where “COVID is really surging,” Arwady said. “But the good news is our hospitalizations have continued to be relatively low - about 15 new hospitalizations a day.” “… Our cases are continuing to increase,” Arwady said. Arwady’s said that largely because vaccines are now available and are better protecting people. Hospitalizations are up, too, though those and deaths remain far lower than during previous surges. That’s driven up COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths among Chicagoans.įor months, Chicago was only seeing about one person die per day from coronavirus now, an average of more than three Chicagoans die per day from the virus. Allison Arwady, head of the Chicago Department of Public Health, said during a Tuesday livestream. More than 98 percent of recent cases in Chicago, in Illinois and across the United States are thought to stem from that variant, Dr. Officials have warned for weeks about a growing wave of COVID-19 fueled by the more contagious Delta variant. CHICAGO - The Delta surge is “very much here” in Chicago, Chicago’s top doctor said Tuesday.

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