Articles filed under Health Crises
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AP-NORC poll: Few Americans support easing virus protectionsApr 22, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Americans remain overwhelmingly in favor of stay-at-home orders and other efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a new survey finds, even as small p...
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College of DuPage architecture alumna helps transform McCormick Place for COVID-19 patientsApr 21, 2020 11:00 pm - In just two weeks, hundreds of workers converted McCormick Place from a convention center to a medical facility with 2,250 rooms to treat COVID-19 patients. College of D...
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Weil Foot & Ankle Institute works outside the box to treat patients during pandemicApr 21, 2020 11:00 pm - Weil Foot & Ankle Institute, headquartered in Mount Prospect, is thoughtfully and diligently supporting efforts to flatten the curve of COVID-19. The physicians and staf...
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US OKs 1st coronavirus test that allows self-swab at homeApr 21, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. health regulators on Tuesday OK'd the first coronavirus test that allows people to collect their own sample at home, a new approach that could hel...
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2 types of testing look for COVID-19 infections new and oldApr 21, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Testing is critical to controlling the coronavirus and eventually easing restrictions that have halted daily life for most Americans. But there's been ...
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Big unknowns about virus complicate getting back to normalApr 21, 2020 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Reopening the U.S. economy is complicated by some troubling scientific questions about the new coronavirus that go beyond the logistics of whether enou...
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More deaths, no benefit from malaria drug in VA virus studyApr 21, 2020 7:00 am - A malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. Ther...
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Good News: Wheaton workshop collecting cards, letters to send to military personnelApr 21, 2020 6:00 am - The cards and letters are coming in. After a plea went out last month from a Wheaton-based organization for families “staying at home” to write letters to the military, ...
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High school seniors on college choices: One Zooms with coaches, other watches YouTubes of campusesApr 21, 2020 5:30 am - Welcome to a new class for high school students looking toward college: It's called Pandemic Decision-Making 101. Here are two stories of high school seniors working to...
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How juniors can 'play zone defense' to research colleges during pandemicApr 21, 2020 5:30 am - The requirements to apply for college seem to change every day for high school juniors who will make up the incoming class in 2021, counselors say. The biggest changes a...