A young Wisconsin man died from an asthma attack after the price of his inhaler skyrocketed nearly $500, according to a lawsuit filed by his family.
An ongoing shortage of a medicine commonly used to treat people with breathing problems is expected to get worse after a major supplier to US hospitals shut down last week.
That refinery sits on the southwestern Lake Michigan shoreline between Chicago and Hammond.
For the first time in Chicago, a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier has died of COVID-19.
A Chicago family is mourning the death of a 22-year-old woman who died from COVID-19.
Asthma medications, like inhalers, are in short supply during the COVID-19 pandemic, one Chicago specialist said.