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La asistente médica Tyla Wilson lleva una mascarilla y sujeta un hisopo mientras le realiza una prueba de COVID-19 a Brianna Green, sentada y con mascarilla. | Ashlee Rezin/Archivos Sun-Times

Health

Masks are back in Chicago-area health care facilities

Some health care systems, like Rush, are again requiring visitors to mask up to help mitigate recent spreading of respiratory viruses, mainly influenza, COVID-19 and RSV.

By Kade Heather

Dr. Igor Koralnik (right) is overseeing long COVID research at Northwestern.

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Northwestern doctors say long COVID detected even after patients tested negative

Potentially millions of people across the U.S. showed so-called long-COVID symptoms in 2020 even though they initially tested negative for the virus back then, researchers find.

By Mariah Rush and Brett Chase

Nurse practitioner Capri Reese (left) watches the monitor for a heart rhythm while respiratory therapist Khafran Alshahin performs chest compressions on an 80-year-old man suffering from COVID-19. Respiratory therapists Dennis Kelly and Malcolm Love (right), also look at the monitor. The 80-year-old man was one of three patients to die of the coronavirus at Roseland Community Hospital, Tuesday afternoon, April 28, 2020.

3 years, 4 million cases, more than 36,000 deaths: Numbers shape Illinois’ dismal COVID-19 story

By Mitchell Armentrout

A patient is wheeled out of the Intensive Care Unit at Roseland Community Hospital in December of 2020.

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Record number of COVID-19 patients fill Illinois hospital beds: ‘This is largely a problem of the unvaccinated’

“With the holidays only a week or two in the rearview mirror, I fear the climb will continue as the virus incubates in those who were exposed at the end of December,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said.

By Manny Ramos

Coronavirus

Illinois hits all-time record high of daily COVID cases

On Wednesday, Illinois reported 16,581 people tested positive for the virus, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. The previous record was set Nov. 13, 2020, with 15,415 positive cases that day.

By Clare Spaulding

Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, 820 S. Damen Ave., Chicago

Coronavirus

After 18 VA patients contract COVID in hospital and 1 dies, top doc rips staff for coming to work sick, not masking

“We have committed very real harm to a large number of patients this week,” Dr. Sarah Unterman, chief of staff for the hospital, said in a memo excoriating the “horrific and disturbing” situation.

By Manny Ramos

Mayor Lori Lightfoot answers questions from the media during a news conference on Monday.

City Hall

City officials say Chicago will reach 77% vaccination rate by the week’s end

A large swath of the population remains unvaccinated. As of Nov. 18, 51.6% of Black residents have received at least one vaccine dose, according to the Chicago Department of Public Health. Among Latinos, the rate was 61.6%.

By Manny Ramos

A Cook County Health Department worker administers a COVID-19 vaccination in May 2021.

News

County health department now using 2020 census tallies for COVID-19 vaccination rates, case counts

Cook County’s vaccination rate among Latinos dropped when layered with new 2020 census figures.

By Manny Ramos

Emilio Cici, 42, of Burr Ridge, gets a shot as he participates in a clinical trial for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by UK drugmaker AstraZeneca last month in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rush University Medical Center.

Coronavirus

Illinois records fewest new coronavirus cases since March 2020; state to end daily updates

The preliminary seven-day infection rate was 0.8% as of Monday, another record low since experts started tracking the metric in May 2020.

By Manny Ramos

Nurse practitioner Ilse Vega administers a COVID-19 vaccine at a West Englewood site during the pandemic.

Coronavirus

Illinois’ infection rate holds steady at 1% for second day

More than 68% of adults in Illinois have received at least one dose of vaccine and more than 51% are fully vaccinated, the state reported.

By Manny Ramos

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Live map of coronavirus cases by zip code

Track the latest confirmed COVID-19 cases by zip code with this state map, updated daily with public health department data.

By Sun-Times staff

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Live map of Illinois coronavirus cases

Track the latest confirmed COVID-19 cases across the state with this state map, updated daily with public health department data.

By Sun-Times staff

Coronavirus Vaccine News

1 in 8 local seniors vaccinated, but a third of city shots still going to non-Chicagoans, Arwady says

“We are pleased to vaccinate people who live in Chicago, who work in Chicago, who get medical care in Chicago,” Health Commissioner Allison Arwady said Thursday. But “we don’t want people broadly driving long distances who don’t have connections to Chicago.”

By Mari Devereaux

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Live map of U.S. coronavirus cases by county

Keep track of coronavirus cases across the country, broken down by county.

By Associated Press

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Latest global coronavirus cases and deaths

Keep track of coronavirus cases around the world, including recoveries and deaths.

By Associated Press

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Latest Illinois coronavirus testing numbers

Keep track of how many tests are being administered in Illinois as the state announces them.

By Caroline Hurley

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Latest Illinois coronavirus cases and deaths

Keep track of new coronavirus cases and deaths in Illinois as the state announces them.

By Caroline Hurley

Swab samples that tested positive for COVID-19 at Simple Laboratories in Harwood Heights in April.

Coronavirus Data

Illinois reports 1,403 new COVID-19 cases, 5 additional deaths

The latest cases are a decline from the massive caseloads the state reported the previous two days.

By Emmanuel Camarillo

Nurse Jeanette Averett delivers dinner trays in the COVID-19 unit at Roseland Community Hospital on the Far South Side in April.

Coronavirus

3 more states added to Chicago’s quarantine travel list as Illinois sees another 39 COVID deaths

Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, said Tuesday that Indiana may soon be added to Chicago’s quarantine travel list, too.

By Sam Charles

Two young men sit a socially distanced two barber chairs apart as they get haircuts Friday at newly reopened C’Styles Barber Shop in Markham.

Coronavirus: Essential News

Will Illinois shut down again? What you need to know about Pritzker’s new ‘tier’ plan

The new guidelines and region breakdown aims to take a more granular approach to coronavirus mitigation, targeting smaller areas than the original plan did and separating Chicago into its own region.

By Caroline Hurley