Articles filed under Health Crises
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Robot cleaners are coming, this time to wipe up your coronavirus germsSep 12, 2020 6:18 am - SAN FRANCISCO - Every day at Sharp Grossmont Hospital, custodial teams wheel two boxy robots down the halls from one patient room to the next, using ultraviolet light to...
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Wildlife populations plummeted 68% since 1970, monitoring showsSep 12, 2020 1:00 am - Humanity's expansion, consumption and transformation of land and sea have caused wildlife populations to plunge over five decades, signaling a “broken” relationship with...
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Vernon Township to roll back executive salaries and freeze staff raisesSep 12, 2020 1:00 am - The Vernon Township Board announced Saturday that it will roll back executive salaries to 2017 levels and freeze all staff pay increases due to the COVID-19 crisis. The ...
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Underwood bashes federal response to COVID-19; Oberweis review mixedSep 12, 2020 1:00 am - Democratic U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood of Naperville bashed the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as an "extraordinary failure," especially criticizi...
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As of Sept. 11, COVID-19 case counts per county, per ZIP codeSep 12, 2020 1:00 am - Interactive map Suburbs' portion There have been 119,378 COVID-19 cases in the suburbs as of Friday. That's 46.3% of the state's total, according to the Ill...
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Readers still have questions about COVID-19Sep 11, 2020 1:00 pm - Many of you continue to have questions about the novel coronavirus. “If a sneeze can spread the virus, can exhaling also spread the virus?” a reader asked. “So many time...
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Experts: Revamped OxyContin hasn't curbed abuse, overdosesSep 11, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A panel of government health advisers said Friday there's no clear evidence that a harder-to-crush version of the painkiller OxyContin designed to disc...
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Study: Kids infected at day care spread coronavirus at homeSep 11, 2020 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Children who caught the coronavirus at day cares and a day camp spread it to their relatives, according to a new report that underscores that kids can br...
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She said yes: Elk Grove Village man surprises front-line nurse with rooftop proposalSep 11, 2020 5:30 am - Like many, Elk Grove Village couple Zach Lefevre and Kayla Kennelly have had a tough couple of months. Kennelly is a front-line nurse at Loyola University Medical Center...
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Parents, students question District 214's reopening metricsSep 11, 2020 5:30 am - Amid increasing calls across the suburbs for a full return to school buildings, parents and students in the Northwest suburbs took their turn Thursday to express concern...