Articles filed under Health Crises
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80 is not the new 70: Age may bias heart care, study findsFeb 19, 2020 6:00 am - People are more likely to buy things when prices end in 99 cents rather than rounded up to the next dollar, or cars with mileage under 1,000 instead of past that mark. N...
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Officials confirm two more cases of Legionnaires' disease in Vernon HillsFeb 19, 2020 12:00 am - Two new cases of Legionnaires' disease have been confirmed at a senior living facility in Vernon Hills. The new cases bring the number of infections at Brookdale Senior ...
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Bills on educating kids about the risks of vaping, sexting advanceFeb 19, 2020 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Two bills that would add the risks of e-cigarette use and sexting to public school curriculum will head to the full Illinois House after unanimously passin...
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Is the new virus more 'deadly' than flu? Not exactlyFeb 18, 2020 6:00 am - What's more deadly - the flu, SARS or the new coronavirus discovered in China? There are different ways to look at it and even knowledgeable folks sometimes say "deadly"...
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US tells remaining cruise passengers: Stay out for 2 weeksFeb 18, 2020 6:00 am - The U.S. government made good on its warning to Americans who chose to remain on board a quarantined cruise ship in Japan, telling them they cannot return home for at le...
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Home quarantine for travelers buys time as new virus spreadsFeb 16, 2020 6:00 am - On his return from China last week, Dr. Ian Lipkin quarantined himself in his basement. His wife now puts his food on the stairs. He's run out of things to watch on Netf...
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Questions complicate efforts to contain new virus from ChinaFeb 15, 2020 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Reports one day suggest the respiratory outbreak in China might be slowing, the next brings word of thousands more cases. Even the experts have whiplas...
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Tweeting in a time of coronavirus: Woman uses social media to lighten mood on cruise shipFeb 15, 2020 5:21 am - Christina Kerby was corralled aboard a massive luxury cruise ship, charting a meandering course somewhere in the South China Sea, when she began thinking about the apoca...
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Local coronavirus patients released from isolationFeb 15, 2020 12:00 am - Two local patients diagnosed in January with the coronavirus (COVID-19) were released Friday from home isolation, according to health departments from the state of Illin...
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Amid coronavirus fears, a second wave of flu hits US kidsFeb 14, 2020 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A second wave of flu is hitting the U.S., turning this into one of the nastiest seasons for children in a decade. The number of child deaths and the hosp...