Articles filed under Health Crises
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COVID-19 antibody testing in NapervilleJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - Oswald's Pharmacy in Naperville is set to begin an FDA-approved antibody testing process for COVID-19 on Friday. The sixth-generation family-owned pharmacy at 88 W. Gart...
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980 new cases and 36 deaths in Illinois; Pritzker calls for national mask ruleJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker decried the federal response to the COVID-19 outbreak during a congressional hearing Wednesday, as state health officials announced 36 more residents ...
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Lake Zurich District 95 suspends all sports camps after athletes test positive for COVID-19Jul 08, 2020 1:00 am - All Lake Zurich District 95 sports camps have been suspended — and its participants urged to quarantine — after “a number of families” reported that students who partici...
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'Virtual' fist-bumps: High school baseball returns amid the pandemicJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - Two high school baseball teams returned to the diamond Wednesday in West Chicago under different protocol than past summers. No sunflower seeds were spit. No water bottl...
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'It brought me back to 40 years ago': Phil's Beach reopens in WaucondaJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - It wasn't her plan, but Cindy Reilly was so early getting to the newly reopened Phil's Beach in Wauconda on Wednesday morning that she became the first customer through ...
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Driver's license expirations extended until Nov. 1Jul 08, 2020 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Expiration dates for driver's licenses, identification cards and license plate stickers have been extended one more month to Nov. 1, Illinois Secretary of ...
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Window into virus surge: Death, recovery at Houston hospitalJul 08, 2020 1:00 am - HOUSTON - A few weeks after more than 100 people attended her husband's funeral, the widow herself was on the brink of death. Her oxygen levels had fallen deadly low due...
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Home of the Sparrow's online auction opens July 13Jul 07, 2020 11:00 pm - While the world may be on pause, homelessness does not stop. Neither does the work Home of the Sparrow does to provide families with shelter, affordable housing, case ma...
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Health panel may open lung cancer screening to more smokersJul 07, 2020 7:00 am - A U.S. health panel wants to widen the number of Americans offered yearly scans for lung cancer by opening the screening to less-heavy smokers. Lung cancer is the nation...
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Three Lake Zurich sports camps on hold after athletes test positive for COVID-19Jul 07, 2020 1:00 am - Three Lake Zurich District 95 sports camps have been put on hold through at least the end of the week after “a number of families” reported that their students on the fo...