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Covid 19 Pandemic

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4 takeaways from Fauci's journals ahead of his Senate testimony

  • Jul 29

Judge questions USAO as charges are dropped in hospital fraud case

  • Jun 12

Local woman fights unemployment fraud accusations over COVID payments

  • May 15

College in south suburbs closing after over 60 years

  • Nov 5, 2025

Illinois health department recommends COVID vaccines for all adults

  • Sep 24, 2025

IL health leaders to create state COVID vaccine policy amid confusion

  • Sep 8, 2025

Another COVID-19 variant is rising abroad

  • May 29, 2025

New contagious COVID-19 variant now circulating in CA

  • May 28, 2025

Latest Videos

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Struggles of long COVID 3 years after WHO declared virus a pandemic

  • Mar 11, 2023
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Pritzker ends COVID pandemic disaster status

  • Feb 1, 2023
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As COVID emergency ends, uninsured to be most impacted

  • Feb 1, 2023
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Senior living community rooms closed for pandemic create isolation, residents say

  • Dec 8, 2022
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Another round of COVID relief being offered to Chicago families

  • Nov 22, 2022
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LaSalle Veterans' Home reports 65 new 'mild' COVID cases

  • Oct 25, 2022
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Doctors clarify Biden's remarks that 'pandemic is over'

  • Sep 19, 2022
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Coronavirus update: WHO says 'the end' of pandemic 'is in sight'

  • Sep 15, 2022

Latest Stories

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COVID by the numbers: 5 years after WHO declared the disease a global pandemic

It's been five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic.

  • Mar 11, 2025

5 years since suburban hospital announced treatment of 1st COVID patient in Illinois

Friday marked five years since a suburban hospital announced it was treating the first confirmed COVID-19 patient in Illinois. At the time, it was only the second COVID case in the United States.

  • Jan 24, 2025

Former Illinois Department of Public Health director fined $150K for ethics violation

Illinois' former top doctor has been fined by the state ethics commission after becoming CEO of Sinai Chicago within a year of leaving IDPH.

  • Jan 11, 2025

House COVID-19 panel releases final report criticizing public health response to the pandemic

In the 520-page report, the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concludes that the coronavirus "most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China."

  • Dec 3, 2024

Northwestern Medicine study shows severe COVID-19 may shrink cancer cells

New research from Northwestern Medicine shows that in some cases of severe COVID, the immune response actually killed cancer cells. Researchers are trying to harness that immune power into new cancer therapies.

  • Nov 15, 2024