Illinois reported 756 new COVID cases and 0 related deaths Monday.
Dr. Michael Hoffman, with Cook County Health, talks about the decision to authorize a second booster shot for some adults.Within the past 24 hours, laboratories have reported testing 28,858 new specimens for a total of 57,554,756 since the pandemic began.As of Sunday night, 481 patients in Illinois were reported to be in the hospital with COVID-19. Of those, 64 patients were in the ICU, and 27 patients with COVID-19 were on ventilators.
The BA.2 sub variant doubles every seven days and is 30-50% more contagious than its original strain. Unlike the omicron wave, the city is not seeing long testing lines. "A lot people are protected from getting BA.2 because of those existing antibodies of BA.1," said Hannah Barbian, a virologist and epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center.
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