Illinois began reporting important data related to COVID-19 on March 10th, 2020. The Center for Illinois Politics compiled the statistics from the last six months to better understand COVID trends in Illinois. As you can see, there has been significant progress overall and we appear to be maintaining a stable approach to deal with this pandemic. While these graphs reflect the outcomes of the entire state, some areas continue to report hot spots and spikes in COVID. These numbers incorporate all areas of the state.

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*Wagner Acerbi Horta contributed

The data for the graphs Total Tests, New Tests, and Current Hospitalizations was compiled from the Illinois Department of Health's COVID-19 statistics page. New Cases were computed by taking the difference of Total Cases between the day in question and the previous day (i.e. Total Cases on March 11 - Total Cases on March 10). New Deaths was calculated the same way as the previous formula but with total deaths every day. The 7 day positivity rate was found with the following formula-  ((Total new cases in the last seven days)/(Total new tests in the last seven days)) * 100. The data follows changes in the COVID-19 categories shown in the graphs between March 10, 2020 and September 25, 2020.

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