Articles filed under Health Crises
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Duckworth, Pritzker, Lightfoot tour COVID-19 facilities at McCormick PlaceApr 17, 2020 1:00 am - State leaders toured McCormick Place Friday, one day after the alternate care facility saw its first COVID-19 patients. U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Ch...
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President Trump urges 3 states to 'liberate'Apr 17, 2020 1:00 am - President Donald Trump seemingly sided with protesters in Minnesota, Michigan and Virginia who are defying social distancing orders to rally against the states' safety m...
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Local AFS exchange students pitch in to make masksApr 16, 2020 11:00 pm - Alvaro Alonso is an AFS exchange student from Argentina. Like many people around the world, Alvaro and six other AFS students are "sheltering in place" because of COVID-...
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Local orthopedic surgeon talks about secondary health care crisis from COVID-19 pandemicApr 16, 2020 11:00 pm - When Surgeon General Jerome Adams recently warned that COVID-19 is our generation's "9/11 moment," it struck me viscerally. Like most Americans, I vividly recall the da...
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Bickford Senior Living reporting all resident cases of COVID-19 on local websitesApr 16, 2020 11:00 pm - (Olathe, KS) - As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread across the nation, senior and long-term care facilities are being hit especially hard. And for the most part, th...
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Drive-through parade at St. Emily SchoolApr 16, 2020 11:00 pm - With a backdrop of "WE MISS YOU" in the windows, and snow on the ground, St. Emily School faculty, staff, pastor and Eagle mascot, waved, cheered, and blew kisses from s...
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Reopening could require thousands more public health workersApr 16, 2020 7:00 am - SEATTLE (AP) - Before stay-at-home orders are lifted, the nation's public health agencies want to be ready to douse any new sparks of coronavirus infection - a task they...
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Older Americans get chance to join virus vaccine studyApr 16, 2020 7:00 am - A U.S. study of a potential COVID-19 vaccine is being expanded to include older adults, the age group most at risk from the new coronavirus. The shot, made by the Nation...
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Coronavirus could erode global fight against other diseasesApr 16, 2020 7:00 am - NEW DELHI (AP) - Lavina D'Souza hasn't been able to collect her government-supplied anti-HIV medication since the abrupt lockdown of India's 1.3 billion people last mont...
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Constable: Learning the business of business during COVID-19Apr 16, 2020 5:30 am - COVID-19 restrictions already have messed with summer plans for many college students. Stay-at-home orders have canceled studies abroad, as well as jobs and internships ...