Articles filed under Health Crises
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Suburbs seeing another uptick in COVID-19 casesDec 31, 2020 12:00 am - Not even a week ago, DuPage County's seven-day average COVID-19 case positivity rate was below 6%, and lower than the rates in Chicago, suburban Cook County and the four...
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EXPLAINER: Scientists trying to understand new virus variantDec 30, 2020 6:00 am - Does it spread more easily? Make people sicker? Mean that treatments and vaccines won't work? Questions are multiplying as fast as new variants of the coronavirus, espec...
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Chinese drugmaker: Vaccine 79.3% effective in final testsDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - BEIJING - A Chinese drugmaker said Wednesday its coronavirus vaccine was found to be 79.3% effective at preventing infection in preliminary data from the final round of ...
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China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus originsDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - MOJIANG, China (AP) - Deep in the lush mountain valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the closest known relative of th...
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Glenview Terrace approved to administer Pfizer COVID-19 vaccineDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - Glenview Terrace, a skilled nursing facility in Glenview, is among Illinois' first skilled nursing facilities allowed to issue COVID-19 vaccinations. In accordance with ...
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Despite less testing, new COVID-19 cases continue to riseDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - The 10 state-run COVID-19 testing sites averaged nearly 1,200 fewer tests a day over the past week compared to the week prior. But new cases continue to rise despite th...
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Editorial: What our resilient arts community taught us during the pandemicDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - Fourth in an Opinion series The Daily Herald Editorial Board In mid-March, Illinois' theaters and music venues went dark. What we all hoped would be a brief hiatus stret...
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Amid virus fears, China urges workers to skip holiday travelDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - BEIJING - China is encouraging tens of millions of migrant workers not to travel home during next February's Lunar New Year holiday to prevent further spread of the coro...
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Colorado Guardsman has 1st reported U.S. case of COVID-19 variantDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - DENVER - The first person in the U.S. known to be infected with a new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus was identified Wednesday as a Colorado Na...
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UK is first to authorize easy-to-handle AstraZeneca vaccineDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - LONDON - Britain became the first country to authorize AstraZeneca's inexpensive, easy-to-handle COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, gaining another weapon against the virus ami...