36,728 Cook County residents in their sixties test positive for COVID-19

Dec 21, 2021

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As of Dec. 21, there have been 36,728 Cook County residents in their sixties who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 830,839 residents in their sixties in the county who had been tested, meaning that 4.4 percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through Dec. 21, there have been 366,017 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 5,612 deaths from the coronavirus in Cook County.

Illinois was home to some of the first reported COVID-19 cases in the US. It has suffered numerous waves of the pandemic, which peaked in the fall of 2020. As the Midwestern hub of the US, Illinois businesses suffered greatly, including layoffs at two major airlines based in the state.

Test results for the past 10 days in Cook County

Date	Total Tested	Total Positive	Positive %
December 21	7,757,188	366,017	4.7
December 20	7,719,038	363,933	4.7
December 17	7,617,791	356,783	4.7
December 16	7,570,428	354,586	4.7
December 15	7,526,071	352,381	4.7
December 14	7,500,504	350,570	4.7
December 13	7,476,003	349,383	4.7

Kyle Diamantas, J.D., Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods of FDA

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