Articles filed under Health Crises
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Constable: With 2021 a repeat of 2020, we put our hope in 2022Dec 25, 2021 12:00 am - Last year at this time, Americans were about to celebrate the arrival of something great. OK, that was a bit optimistic. What we really had was a fervent hope that 2021 ...
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EXPLAINER: What COVID-19 therapies are available in U.S.?Dec 24, 2021 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. recently added two new weapons to its small arsenal against the coronavirus: pills that patients can take at home to treat COVID-19. The drugs...
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Saunders: Vaccine shaming is not a solution to COVID-19 pandemicDec 24, 2021 12:00 am - Blaming the unvaccinated is the sharpest tool in President Joe Biden's shed, and that is not healthy for America. Consider Biden's address to the nation on COVID-19 from...
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'I have changed': A nurse suffering long-haul COVID-19 effects looks toward ChristmasDec 23, 2021 7:00 am - Editor's note: Alix Atwell is a nurse and aspiring writer who lives in Barrington and works in Northbrook. In the summer of 2020, she chronicled for the Daily Herald...
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Search for a COVID-19 test means sold-out signs, long linesDec 23, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - President Joe Biden promised to distribute hundreds of millions of free COVID-19 tests and to open more testing sites to fight surging infections, but th...
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CDC warns of 2 listeria outbreaks tied to packaged saladDec 23, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. health officials are warning the public not to eat certain brands of packaged salads, which they say are linked to two small, long-running listeria ...
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US sets shorter COVID-19 isolation rules for health workersDec 23, 2021 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Worried that a new COVID-19 wave could overwhelm understaffed U.S. hospitals, federal officials on Thursday loosened rules that call on health care worke...
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Omicron less likely to put you in the hospital, studies sayDec 23, 2021 6:00 am - Two new British studies provide some early hints that the omicron variant of the coronavirus may be milder than the delta version. Scientists stress that even if the f...
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US adds Merck pill as 2nd easy-to-use drug against COVID-19Dec 23, 2021 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. health regulators on Thursday authorized the second pill against COVID-19, providing another easy-to-use medication to battle the rising tide of o...
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Universal Orlando reinstates mask rule as COVID cases riseDec 23, 2021 12:00 am - ORLANDO - Universal Orlando is reinstating its mask requirements beginning Christmas Eve as COVID-19 cases are surging as a result of the omicron variant. Daily cases of...