Articles filed under Health Crises
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Supreme Court sidesteps several new gun cases, including challenge to assault weapons ban in IllinoisJul 02, 2024 10:16 am - The Supreme Court sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights Tuesday, declining to hear a challenge to an assault weapons ban in Illinois and sending other gun cases back to lower courts, including a challenge to the law used to convict Hunter Biden.
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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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Fauci pushes back partisan attacks in fiery House hearing over COVID origins and controversiesJun 03, 2024 9:10 pm - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert until leaving the government in 2022, was back before Congress on Monday, calling “simply preposterous” Republican allegations that he'd tried to cover up origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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IDPH says measles outbreak is overJun 03, 2024 4:35 pm - The state health department says a measles outbreak is over.
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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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State wants schools to monitor students’ vaccination status amid measles outbreakApr 12, 2024 6:43 pm - With measles cases hitting a recent high of 62 in the Chicago region, state officials are asking schools to check students’ vaccination status and encourage shots to redu...
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With 53 cases of measles recorded in the city and suburbs, when does it peak?Apr 01, 2024 7:24 pm - Measles infections related to an outbreak at a Chicago migrant shelter have proliferated from one case reported on March 4 to 53 as of Monday statewide.
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Lake County Health Department reports first case of measlesMar 23, 2024 1:13 pm - The Lake County Health Department has confirmed a case of measles in a Lake County resident, according to a news release. There have been at least 60 reported measles ca...
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Report: Canada’s wildfires push Chicago to second most polluted major city in the U.S.Mar 19, 2024 5:58 pm - With an unfortunate boost from Canadian wildfires, Chicago’s air quality dropped a notch in 2023, identifying the city as the second most polluted in the United States, a...