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Tuesday, September 23, 2025

2703 Cook County residents 80 or older test positive for COVID-19

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As of June 5, there have been 2,703 Cook County residents 80 years of age and older who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 19,396 residents 80 and older in the county who had been tested, meaning that 13 percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through June 5, there have been 33,793 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,640 deaths from the coronavirus in Cook County.

Illinois gathers all of its COVID-19 data from across the state electronically. The reported cases and deaths will fluctuate as additional info is gathered. Chicago was home to one of the first known cases of COVID-19 in the US, as well as it's transmission.

Test results for the past 10 days in Cook County
DateTotal TestedTotal PositivePositive %
June 5222,04033,79315.2
June 4218,73633,46215.3
June 3213,86633,22715.5
June 2209,38832,94015.7
June 1205,71832,65815.9
May 31201,33532,39816.1
May 30196,51132,03416.3
May 29191,46931,60016.5
May 28186,75331,13616.7
May 27182,41230,74316.9

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