Rock Island Today

As of May 15, there have been 113 Rock Island County residents in their fifties who have tested positive for COVID-19, according to numbers being reported to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

There have been 502 residents in their fifties in the county who had been tested, meaning that 22 percent of those tested have the coronavirus. Through May 15, there have been 563 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 18 deaths from the coronavirus in Rock Island 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.

Date	Total Tested	Total Positive	Positive %
May 15	3,015	563	18.7
May 14	2,870	543	18.9
May 13	2,785	538	19.3
May 12	2,731	530	19.4
May 11	2,544	517	20.3
May 10	2,487	515	20.7
May 9	2,380	507	21.3
May 8	2,284	498	21.8
May 7	2,118	477	22.5
May 6	1,997	465	23.3