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Knox County reports 65 new COVID cases for the past week; testing, masks, boosters available
The Register-Mail via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGALESBURG — The Knox County Unified Command is announcing 65 new cases of Coronavirus Disease...
Illinois health department urges schools to watch for monkeypox; COVID-19 measures pulled back
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMonitoring students and staff at Illinois schools for new and unexplained lesions is among the new monkeypox prevention guidance recommended this week by the state’s health department as officials ...
COVID cases, deaths decline in IL. CDC puts 14 counties at an elevated community level
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThough new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in Illinois dropped over the latest reporting...
Some Illinois school districts to ditch COVID-19 tests this fall: ‘The demand really wasn’t there’
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCHICAGO — Despite the urging of the state’s health department to resume school-based COVID-19...
Illinois hits 1,000 monkeypox cases; Chicago’s public health chief cautiously optimistic by slowed...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIllinois passed 1,000 monkeypox cases Friday, a major milestone that comes less than three months after the disease first appeared in Illinois, public health data shows. Of the state’s 1,005 ...
Racial disparity in healthcare: 'No one goes into medicine wanting to see patients suffer'
The State Journal-Register via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLeaders in Illinois are working to eliminate racial healthcare disparities in light of the COVID-19...
Audit blasts Pritzker administration for failed response to LaSalle Veterans’ Home COVID-19 outbreak...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAn Illinois state auditor general review of the COVID-19 outbreak that killed 36 elderly military...
State urges all eligible to get new Bivalent booster
Commercial-News, Danville, Ill. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 6—With 90 counties in the state at an elevated level for COVID-19, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is urging all who are eligible to take advantage of the new bivalent booster ...
Pediatrician and health care policy expert at SIU named director of Illinois Public Health...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday appointed a professor from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine to lead the state Department of Public Health as highly contagious coronavirus variants ...
Chicago and suburbs reach low risk level for COVID-19 as new cases, hospitalizations decline
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoChicago and Cook County moved from a medium to low COVID-19 community level Friday, according to the...