Articles filed under Health Crises
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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...
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Cultivating hope and resilience during COVID-19Dec 30, 2020 12:00 am - Since March of 2020, on average I sleep about four to six hours a night and work 12 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week. Other than my daily walk around the neighborhoo...
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COVID cluckers: Pandemic feeds demand for backyard chickensDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - ROSS, Calif. - The coronavirus pandemic is coming home to roost in America's backyards. Forced to hunker down at home, more people are setting up coops and raising their...
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COVID-19: Three more deaths in Northbrook, nine in GlenviewDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - Twelve people in Glenview and Northbrook died of COVID-19 in the past week, and 178 new cases of the disease were diagnosed in the communities, the Cook County public he...
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Trump's push for $2,000 checks all but dead as GOP Senate refuses aidDec 30, 2020 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks was all but dead Wednesday as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed an alternative...
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VNA Health begins administering COVID-19 vaccine to staff with patient contactDec 29, 2020 10:00 pm - VNA Health Care is delighted to announce that on Thursday, Dec. 31, at 9 a.m., it will begin vaccinating staff with patient contact against COVID-19. This vaccination c...
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Bloomingdale's Alden Valley Ridge Rehab & Health Care Center holds its first COVID-19 vaccine clinicDec 29, 2020 10:00 pm - In partnership with Walgreens, Alden Valley Ridge Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Bloomingdale held its first COVID-19 vaccine clinic for residents and staff to...