Another Sign In Elmhurst Of Fading Pandemic

ELMHURST, IL — The number of coronavirus patients in Elmhurst Hospital has been in the single digits every day since June 1.

This information comes from the daily reports issued by the hospital to the media, something its spokesman, Keith Hartenberger, has done throughout much of the pandemic.

But on Wednesday, he said the hospital was issuing its last daily report, another sign of the fading pandemic. From now on, he said, the hospital would email reports every Wednesday. He said the information would be made available on request on other days.

The last three days, the hospital has only had three coronavirus patients. The high at the hospital was 84 on Nov. 17. As recently as early May, the hospital reported having 35 coronavirus patients.

Since the pandemic started, 188 people have died at the hospital as the result of COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus. Only five of those deaths have been in the last month.

Since Sunday, only three new coronavirus cases have been reported in Elmhurst. Since the start of the pandemic, Elmhurst has seen 4,404 cases, which amounts to about 9 percent of the city's population.