Articles filed under Health Crises
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Fearing COVID-19, older people alter their living willsMay 17, 2020 6:20 am - DENVER - Last month, Minna Buck revised a document specifying her wishes should she become critically ill. "No intubation," she wrote in large letters on the form, makin...
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McHenry County sheriff: No 'capacity or desire' to enforce the governor's ordersMay 17, 2020 1:00 am - The McHenry County sheriff's office has no plan to enforce the Gov. J.B. Pritzker's stay-at-home order as a criminal offense, Sheriff Bill Prim announced in a Facebook p...
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Maine West grads, teachers don't mind a little rain on their paradeMay 17, 2020 1:00 am - It didn't matter that it rained on Maine West High School's graduation parade. Hundreds of seniors still drove past nearly 80 teachers lining the entrance of the Des Pla...
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State reports 1,734 new COVID-19 cases, 51 additional deathsMay 17, 2020 1:00 am - The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Sunday that 1,734 additional COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the state and 51 more people have died from the cor...
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May 17 COVID-19 cases per county; search by ZIP codeMay 17, 2020 1:00 am - Interactive map Since the outbreak began, there have been 47,593 cases of COVID-19 in the suburbs, about 51% of the state's total, according to the Illinois ...
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Editorial: Pritzker must rally support behind pandemic planMay 16, 2020 3:00 pm - Living and working as we do in Chicago's suburbs, as you do, we are sympathetic to Gov. J.B. Pritzker's emergency directive and to the state's conservative economic reop...
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The limits of smartphone data are on display as the country seeks to reopenMay 16, 2020 6:19 am - Federal and state officials are using smartphone location data to inform what amounts to a high-stakes public health experiment in reopening the economy while a lethal p...
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Coronavirus antibodies used in two new waysMay 16, 2020 6:00 am - Q: I heard on the news about a coronavirus medicine made with blood from people who were sick and got better. But my husband says it's actually a blood test to see if so...
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A song to make you smile: 'Black Water' in isolationMay 16, 2020 5:30 am - We're trying to inject a little positivity in the paper (and on dailyherald.com) with a daily "Song to Make You Smile." It's designed to help lift you out of your corona...
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Elgin church won't reopen Sunday, threatens suit over COVID-19 shutdownMay 16, 2020 1:00 am - The Northwest Bible Baptist Church near Elgin announced it will not hold services on Sunday after receiving a letter Friday afternoon from the Kane County state's attorn...