Articles filed under Health Crises
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How COVID-19 affected suburbs' minority communitiesDec 23, 2020 4:00 am - From the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, health officials warned that every American was vulnerable to infection and the virus would not discriminate. But that's exactl...
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Can the vaccine give me COVID-19? Which vaccine should I take? We answer your questions.Dec 23, 2020 4:00 am - More than 63,000 people outside Chicago have received the first doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine a week into the state's immunization effort. As Moderna adds to the su...
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Lower and later liquor license fees among latest Arlington Heights relief measuresDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - Arlington Heights will extend some additional financial relief to local businesses - particularly restaurants - amid the ongoing pandemic and resulting second ban on ind...
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South Korea's cases, COVID-19 deaths spike againDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - South Korea has added another new 1,092 infections of the coronavirus in a resurgence that is erasing hard-won epidemiological gains and eroding public confidence in the...
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Pfizer to supply U.S. with additional 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccineDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Pfizer said Wednesday it will supply the U.S. government with an additional 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine under a new agreement between the phar...
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After months of calm, Thailand grapples with virus outbreakDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - BANGKOK - After managing against the odds to keep the coronavirus largely in check for most of the year, Thailand has suddenly found itself challenged by an expanding ou...
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A season of fear, not cheer, as virus changes ChristmasDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - Montserrat Parello lost her husband eight years ago, and Christmas gatherings with children and grandchildren had helped her deal with her loneliness. But this year, the...
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In France, a pandemic dilemma over holiday rights for eldersDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - PARIS - Not once in the long months since the pandemic struck has 74-year-old Jean-Francois been able to leave his nursing home in eastern France to visit his daughter o...
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COVID-19: Eight more deaths in Northbrook, three in GlenviewDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - Eleven people in Glenview and Northbrook died of COVID-19 in the past week and 246 new cases of the disease were diagnosed, the Cook County public health and medical exa...
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Global virus rules for Christmas: Tough, mild or none at allDec 23, 2020 12:00 am - In Peru, you can't drive your car on Christmas. In Lebanon, you can go to a nightclub, but you can't dance. In South Africa, roadblocks instead of beach parties will mar...