Articles filed under Health Crises
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US experts debate: Who should be next in line for vaccine?Dec 18, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Deciding that health care workers and nursing home residents should be first in line for the initial, limited supplies of COVID-19 shots wasn't that hard...
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Demand is low for COVID-19 antibody drugs but shortages loomDec 18, 2020 6:00 am - U.S. health officials are seeing an astonishing lack of demand for COVID-19 medicines that may help keep infected people out of the hospital, drugs they rushed out to st...
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Why Deer Park's sales tax rate could increase againDec 18, 2020 4:30 am - Deer Park voters will decide whether to increase the village's sales tax rate for the second time in three years. Prompted by revenue losses triggered by the COVID-19 cr...
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FDA clears Moderna vaccine for COVID-19, second shot in U.S. arsenalDec 18, 2020 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - The U.S. added a second COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal Friday, boosting efforts to beat back an outbreak so dire that the nation is regularly recording mor...
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Winter travel raises more fears of viral spreadDec 18, 2020 12:00 am - Tens of millions of people are expected to travel to family gatherings or winter vacations over Christmas, despite pleas by public health experts who fear the result cou...
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Downtown Naperville restaurant launching new dining car concept this weekendDec 18, 2020 12:00 am - Riff Menza feared his downtown Naperville restaurant was nearing its breaking point. Features Bar & Grill had so far weathered the economic storm of the COVID-19 pandemi...
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'Everybody should do their part': Glenview's Glenbrook Hospital gets first vaccines to staffDec 18, 2020 12:00 am - A Glenbrook Hospital doctor said he is cautiously optimistic after the arrival of 1,950 doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine Thursday. "Yesterday and today are great days ...
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Mobile COVID-19 testing in Elgin, CarpentersvilleDec 18, 2020 12:00 am - A mobile testing unit managed by the Illinois Department of Public Health will be in Kane County next week to provide free COVID-19 tests to the community. The unit will...
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Boys & Girls Club gets massive mask donation in South ElginDec 18, 2020 12:00 am - One by one, pallet after pallet carrying more than 20,000 face masks each were unloaded Friday from a semitrailer in the warehouse that will serve as the future home of ...
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17,000 health workers vaccinated so far; nursing homes could get shots Dec. 28Dec 18, 2020 12:00 am - Deaths from COVID-19 surpassed 15,000 Friday, officials reported, as more than 17,000 health care workers in the suburbs and beyond have been vaccinated against the resp...