Articles filed under Health Crises
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US has twice as many measles cases so far this year than in all of 2024Apr 04, 2025 1:48 pm - The U.S. now has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024, with Texas reporting another large jump in cases and hospitalizations on Friday.
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‘All new to everyone’: Parents recall navigating COVID school shutdown five years agoMar 29, 2025 12:54 pm - Closing schools during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in parents and children spending a lot more time together. Several shared their stories about balancing remote learning and recreation during 2020’s COVID summer.
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‘We realized this is legit’: Elgin paramedic remembers early days of COVIDMar 26, 2025 6:25 pm - Five years after the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in the suburbs, Elgin Fire Department Division Chief Chris Kennedy remembers how easy it was to dismiss the threat of a pandemic in the early days.
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‘The customers got us through’: Wheeling eatery’s owners recall tactics used to survive pandemicMar 22, 2025 12:45 pm - Until March 2020, the father-and-son owners of The Original Granny’s in Wheeling thought the biggest worries about their then-39-year-old restaurant would always be finding and retaining the right staff as well as keeping favored food items in stock.
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‘A sprint and a marathon at the same time’: Public health care workers describe early pandemic challengesMar 15, 2025 12:30 pm - Though trained to deal with a variety of situations, it quickly became apparent the snowballing coronavirus was unlike anything Patti Corn, emergency response coordinator, or Sara Zamor, associate director of prevention, or their colleagues at the Lake County Health Department had faced.
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Get vaccinated March 25 in Park RidgeMar 13, 2025 10:48 am - You can get vaccinated against influenza, COVID-19, shingles and other diseases on March 25 at Maine Township hall.
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Schaumburg to hold Community Blood Drive March 18Mar 10, 2025 1:35 pm - The village of Schaumburg encourages the public to participate in its next Community Blood Drive from 1:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 18 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 1320 W. Schaumburg Road.
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Local physician outlines who’s at risk from Texas measles outbreak and what we should doMar 03, 2025 5:07 pm - A measles outbreak in a Texas community deliberately avoiding the vaccine should be little threat to any others where herd immunity is maintained by having at least 95% of the population vaccinated, a local physician says.
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Texas measles cases rise to 146 in an outbreak that led to a child's deathFeb 28, 2025 12:53 pm - The number of people with measles in Texas increased to 146 in an outbreak that led this week to the death of an unvaccinated school-aged child, health officials said Friday.
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Are egg producers inflating prices during the bird flu outbreak to boost profits?Feb 28, 2025 7:46 am - Egg producers blame the bird flu outbreak for driving prices to record highs, but critics believe giant companies are taking advantage of their market dominance to profit handsomely at the expense of budget-conscious egg buyers.