Articles filed under Coronavirus
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‘The sooner, the better’: Here’s the lowdown on this year’s COVID-19 shot and why it’s importantSep 15, 2024 7:35 am - Got questions about the latest COVID vaccines, case numbers and new strains of the virus? We’ve got answers.
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Six-year prison sentence for Burr Ridge man involved in COVID testing swindleSep 04, 2024 1:18 pm - The former chief operating officer of a Willowbrook-based business that sold COVID-19 test kits has been sentenced to six years in prison for swindling nearly $2 million in company funds.
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COVID numbers are climbing, but not as rapidly as in other statesJul 12, 2024 9:31 pm - COVID numbers are on the rise again, but public health experts said Illinois isn’t yet seeing the spikes other states are reporting.
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Retiring District 25 superintendent discusses medication scandal, pandemicJun 06, 2024 10:18 pm - Arlington Heights Elementary District 25 Superintendent Lori Bein will retire next week, after a decade at the helm of K-8 district that included navigating through the p...
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Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of labApr 30, 2024 7:53 am - SHANGHAI — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facili...
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Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonousApr 22, 2024 8:18 am - BEIJING — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the sour...
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COVID-19 deaths are down, but Illinois’ death rate is still higher than it was pre-pandemicFeb 11, 2024 6:00 am - Newly released mortality figures by the Illinois Department of Public Health show deaths in 2022 were still coming in at a much higher rate than what the state was seeing before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cough? Sore throat? More schools suggest mildly sick kids attend anywayFeb 07, 2024 8:06 am - Trenace Dorsey-Hollins’ 5-year-old daughter was sick a lot last year. Dorsey-Hollins followed school guidelines and kept her home when she had a cough or a sore throat — ...
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Illinois sees seasonal bump in COVID-19 infections after ‘mild’ yearDec 27, 2023 11:06 am - At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a quarter of the new patients being hospitalized each week throughout Illinois were infected with the deadly respiratory disease. Th...
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COO of suburban COVID-19 test outfit faces embezzlement chargesDec 20, 2023 12:50 pm - The former chief operating officer of a Willowbrook-based company that sold COVID-19 tests is facing federal embezzlement charges. Dennis W. Haggerty Jr., 47, of Burr Rid...
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