Jake Griffin
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How full have suburban hospitals become?Dec 11, 2020 12:00 am - More than a third of the state's 171 short-term care and critical access hospitals have reported at least one week where 80% or more of the hospital's staffed inpatient ...
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Why it will take months before kids get the COVID-19 vaccineDec 10, 2020 4:30 am - Doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are already in short supply, but that's not the main reason it will be months before children are able to be inoculated. "The vaccines have...
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Illinois COVID-19 infection rate, hospitalizations continue to declineDec 10, 2020 12:00 am - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker remained hopeful Thursday that a decline in the seven-day average infection rate and in hospitalizations foretell a lasting trend for the sta...
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COVID-19 infection rate dips below 10% for first time since Nov. 6Dec 08, 2020 12:00 am - Illinois' COVID-19 seven-day average infection rate dipped below 10% Tuesday for the first time in more than a month as state health officials tried to allay fears about...
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COVID-19 has now killed one in every 1,000 Illinois residentsDec 03, 2020 12:00 am - One in every 1,000 Illinois residents has now died from COVID-19, according to the most recent data released by the Illinois Department of Public Health. "It is devastat...
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Pritzker: Illinois' first COVID-19 vaccine allotment will stretch further than expectedDec 02, 2020 12:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Wednesday the state's initial 109,000-dose COVID-19 vaccine allotment will actually go to that many residents instead of half that amount as...
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Pritzker won't loosen restrictions anywhere for 'next few weeks'Nov 30, 2020 12:00 am - Citing fears of a Thanksgiving-related resurgence of COVID-19, Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Monday that mitigation restrictions in the state will not be loosened in comi...
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Illinois surpasses 12,000 COVID-19 deaths (19% of those this month), 700,000 casesNov 27, 2020 12:00 am - Illinois has surpassed 12,000 COVID-19 deaths and 700,000 cases of the disease statewide. State health officials announced Friday that 66 more residents have died from C...
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Illinois hospitals averaging more than 6,000 COVID-19 patients dailyNov 23, 2020 12:00 am - COVID-19 hospitalizations have averaged 20% more for the past week in Illinois than at the height of the first wave of the disease in the spring. Hospitals statewide ha...
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Suburban long-term care facilities brace for another 'COVID storm'Nov 19, 2020 12:00 am - They were among the first - and certainly hardest - hit during the first wave of COVID-19 last spring, and long-term care facilities are once again battling the deadly v...