Articles filed under Health Crises
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VNA Health Care offers daily mobile COVID-19 testingDec 27, 2020 10:00 pm - VNA Health Care offers three mobile COVID-19 testing clinics at locations in Batavia, Bensenville and West Chicago. The testing is also available at four VNA Health Cent...
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VNA Health Care offers daily mobile COVID-19 testing in BataviaDec 27, 2020 10:00 pm - VNA Health Care is offering a new mobile COVID-19 Community Testing Clinic from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily in the parking lot of the former Sam's Club, 501 N. Randall Road i...
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Editorial: A salute to those on the pandemic front linesDec 27, 2020 10:00 pm - Second in an Opinion series Doctors, nurses, police, emergency workers, health care workers, grocery staff. All became heroes on the front lines of the 2020 war on coro...
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Trump signs pandemic relief bill, averts shutdownDec 27, 2020 12:00 am - WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - President Donald Trump has signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package that will deliver long-sought cash to businesses and individuals. It als...
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Financial carnage will be legacy of government's managementDec 27, 2020 12:00 am - Closing of businesses in Illinois is controversial. I operate a manufacturing business with 500 employees. We are designated as an "essential" business and have never b...
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Illinois reports 3,767 more COVID-19 cases, 104 additional deathsDec 27, 2020 12:00 am - Figures released by the Illinois Department of Public Health Sunday showed an uptick in new COVID-19 cases and nearly double the number of deaths. On Sunday, IDPH announ...
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Editorial: COVID-19 was a test. How did we do?Dec 26, 2020 1:00 pm - We hope 2021 will end the pandemic, but we cannot go back to the way we were
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Nursing homes face daunting task of getting consent before they give coronavirus vaccinesDec 26, 2020 12:00 am - More than 3 million elderly and infirm residents of nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities may face delays in getting coronavirus vaccines as the facilities c...
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A battle that doesn't end: The pandemic's effect on health care workersDec 26, 2020 12:00 am - Nurse Samantha Mull felt helpless as she held the hand of a dying COVID-19 patient, trying to provide a sense of comfort as his family members said their goodbyes over t...
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A pandemic atlas: How COVID-19 took over the world in 2020Dec 25, 2020 6:00 am - Almost no place has been spared - and no one. The virus that first emerged a year ago in Wuhan, China, swept across the world in 2020, leaving havoc in its wake. More th...