Articles filed under Health Crises
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Drive-through COVID-19 testing facility to open Friday in Rolling MeadowsMay 18, 2020 1:00 am - The state will open a new drive-through COVID-19 testing facility Friday at Rolling Meadows High School, providing free tests to anyone who believes they need one. Offi...
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'COVID toes,' other rashes latest possible rare virus signsMay 17, 2020 7:00 am - Skin doctors suddenly are looking at a lot of toes - whether by emailed picture or video visit - as concern grows that for some people, a sign of COVID-19 may pop up in ...
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Bartering is back: When life gives you lemons, trade them for a neighbor's hand sanitizerMay 17, 2020 6:23 am - SAN FRANCISCO - Tammy Calhoun traded a loaf of freshly baked bread and a few homegrown avocados for a neighbor's help planting a vegetable garden in her front yard last ...
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Fearing COVID-19, older people alter their living willsMay 17, 2020 6:20 am - DENVER - Last month, Minna Buck revised a document specifying her wishes should she become critically ill. "No intubation," she wrote in large letters on the form, makin...
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McHenry County sheriff: No 'capacity or desire' to enforce the governor's ordersMay 17, 2020 1:00 am - The McHenry County sheriff's office has no plan to enforce the Gov. J.B. Pritzker's stay-at-home order as a criminal offense, Sheriff Bill Prim announced in a Facebook p...
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Maine West grads, teachers don't mind a little rain on their paradeMay 17, 2020 1:00 am - It didn't matter that it rained on Maine West High School's graduation parade. Hundreds of seniors still drove past nearly 80 teachers lining the entrance of the Des Pla...
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State reports 1,734 new COVID-19 cases, 51 additional deathsMay 17, 2020 1:00 am - The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Sunday that 1,734 additional COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the state and 51 more people have died from the cor...
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May 17 COVID-19 cases per county; search by ZIP codeMay 17, 2020 1:00 am - Interactive map Since the outbreak began, there have been 47,593 cases of COVID-19 in the suburbs, about 51% of the state's total, according to the Illinois ...
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Editorial: Pritzker must rally support behind pandemic planMay 16, 2020 3:00 pm - Living and working as we do in Chicago's suburbs, as you do, we are sympathetic to Gov. J.B. Pritzker's emergency directive and to the state's conservative economic reop...
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The limits of smartphone data are on display as the country seeks to reopenMay 16, 2020 6:19 am - Federal and state officials are using smartphone location data to inform what amounts to a high-stakes public health experiment in reopening the economy while a lethal p...