Articles filed under Health Crises
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Millennial Money: Lessons learned while sheltering at homeJul 12, 2020 6:19 am - Shelter in place. Lockdown. Quarantine. Whatever you call it, it's been a few months since the COVID-19 pandemic taught us what staying home for an extended period of ti...
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Companies are hiring their own epidemiologists to help deal with the pandemicJul 12, 2020 6:18 am - GrubHub wasn't sure how to safely deliver meals during a pandemic. The familiar food safety rules of temperature and sanitation were not enough. Did drivers need masks? ...
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Why missing college this fall is a bad idea for returning studentsJul 12, 2020 6:17 am - As colleges figure out how to structure classes this fall, many students are questioning whether to enroll at all. The idea of taking a gap year might sound enticing, bu...
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Employers find testing employees for COVID-19 more trouble than it's worthJul 12, 2020 6:00 am - From nursing homes in New York and a landfill in Utah to Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip, employers are wrestling with workplace safety in the age of COVID-19 and m...
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Pritzker urges use of face coverings as state reports 954 more COVID-19 casesJul 12, 2020 1:00 am - State health officials reported another 954 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, as well as another 20 deaths from the virus. The report ends a run of three consecutiv...
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July 12 COVID-19 cases per county; search by ZIP codeJul 12, 2020 1:00 am - Interactive map Suburbs' portion Since the outbreak began, there have been 78,079 cases in the suburbs as of Sunday, 51% of the state's total, accordin...
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Cashing in on COVID-19 billions despite Medicare fraud, millions in settlementsJul 12, 2020 1:00 am - A nonprofit healthcare giant based in Chicago that's paid more than $80 million in settlements since 2010 over Medicare and Medicaid fraud and other violations of federa...
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As businesses reopen, many Americans plan to spend lessJul 11, 2020 6:12 am - The novel coronavirus - which has infected almost three million people and killed more than 130,000 in the U.S. alone - has roiled the economy and brought many aspects o...
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These suburbanites visited India in February. Only this summer did they make it back home.Jul 11, 2020 1:00 am - When Daily Herald newsprint handler Nita Dave took a two-week leave of absence for an emergency visit to India Feb. 28, she fully expected to be back at work in March. S...
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1,195 new coronavirus cases in Illinois, third straight day above 1,000Jul 11, 2020 1:00 am - Illinois' confirmed coronavirus cases increased Saturday by 1,195, including 24 deaths, the state reported. It's the third straight day more than 1,000 cases have been r...