Prairie State Wire

A COVID-19 vaccine was administered to 89.6 percent of Illinois's nursing and care homes as of April 17, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

This is unchanged since the previous data update on March 20. The number of staff employed in nursing and care homes can fluctuate significantly, sometimes leading to a decrease in the total percentage of vaccinated staff.

Illinois is the 22nd most vaccinated state in the US among nursing and care homes.

COVID-19 claimed 37 lives in Illinois in the week ending April 17. This is a decrease from the week before.

There have been up to 34,487 fatalities tied to COVID-19 in Illinois.

Vaccination rates are consistently high across US nursing and care homes, much higher than vaccination rates in the general public.

A Brookings Institution report found even in states with most vaccine-adverse communities, such as Wyoming and West Virginia, more than 80 percent of the elderly above the age of 65 are vaccinated.

State	% Vaccinated	% Change
Alaska	94.8	1.7
Alabama	85.2	0.8
Arkansas	88.9	0.6
Arizona	78.5	1.1
California	89.6	0.5
Colorado	92.1	-0.3
Connecticut	92.8	-0.1
District of Columbia	84.2	0.3
Delaware	93.8	1.8
Florida	82.7	0.7
Georgia	85.8	-0.1
Hawaii	93.8	0.1
Iowa	93.6	0.2
Idaho	84.1	-1.7
Illinois	89.6	0
Indiana	86.1	0
Kansas	87.7	-0.4
Kentucky	86.9	-0.2
Louisiana	86.2	0.1
Massachusetts	94.6	-0.1
Maryland	90.3	0.3
Michigan	87.4	0.8
Minnesota	93.5	0.2
Missouri	85.5	-0.7
Mississippi	85.3	-0.5
Montana	87.7	-2.4
North Carolina	86.7	-0.2
North Dakota	92.5	0.2
Nebraska	93.1	-0.1
New Hampshire	94.7	-0.2
New Jersey	89.8	-0.2
New Mexico	86.2	2
Nevada	80.2	2.5
New York	90.4	0.5
Ohio	83.9	0.2
Oklahoma	85.8	0.1
Oregon	87.4	0.9
Pennsylvania	90.7	0.5
Rhode Island	94.4	-0.4
South Carolina	86.6	0.4
South Dakota	95.1	0.1
Tennessee	83.2	0.6
Texas	82.3	0.2
Utah	85	-3.7
Virginia	89.6	0.4
Vermont	96.5	0.1
Washington	89.9	0.2
Wisconsin	90.2	0.1
West Virginia	89	0.7
Wyoming	89.8	0