Articles filed under Health Crises
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Health experts question Pence campaigning as essential workOct 25, 2020 7:00 am - Health policy specialists questioned White House officials' claim that federal rules on essential workers allow Vice President Mike Pence to continue to campaign and not...
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Medical professionals push back after Trump says COVID-19 cases are inflated to 'get more money'Oct 25, 2020 1:00 am - Medical professionals are on the defensive after President Donald Trump accused “doctors and hospitals” of inflating COVID-19 patient counts to “get more money” during a...
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COVID-19 case counts per county, ZIP code as of Oct. 23Oct 24, 2020 1:00 am - Interactive mapFind an interactive map where you can search counts by ZIP code at dailyherald.com. Suburbs' portion There have been 160,582 COVID-19 cases...
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State sets record again for new COVID-19 cases: 6,161, up 25% from Thursday's recordOct 24, 2020 1:00 am - The state Saturday reported 6,161 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease, a 25% jump from the previous high set on Thursday in a sign that the recent surge of the il...
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How pandemic could prompt cities to step back from car-centric designOct 24, 2020 1:00 am - Like much of California, the city of Oakland was under a shelter-in-place order in March, leaving its population of around 430,000 few options for getting out of the hou...
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Red ribbons bring awareness to Elgin drug prevention campaignOct 24, 2020 1:00 am - Volunteers and community members spent part of their Saturday tying red ribbons on a pair of downtown Elgin bridges to raise awareness for the need for drug abuse preven...
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Schaumburg Business Association honors members' efforts during pandemic yearOct 23, 2020 9:05 pm - In a year it wasn't able to play a single game due to the pandemic, the Schaumburg Boomers baseball team received the Schaumburg Business Association's Brian H. Burke Bu...
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AstraZeneca, J&J resuming US tests of COVID-19 vaccinesOct 23, 2020 7:00 am - Two drugmakers announced Friday the resumption of U.S. testing of their COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Testing of AstraZeneca's vaccine candidate had been halted since ear...
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US suicide rate fell last year after decade of steady riseOct 23, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. suicide rate fell slightly last year, the first annual decline in more than a decade, according to new government data. It's a small decrease an...
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Revenue shortfall due to COVID-19 delays some capital projects, hiring in ItascaOct 23, 2020 5:30 am - Itasca's revenue has dropped roughly $1 million between May and August because of the COVID-19 pandemic, causing the village to delay some capital projects and hiring. L...