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A man is tested for the coronavirus outside Loretto Hospital in Chicago on April 27, 2020. (Antonio Perez / baiduhai)

Today in History: COVID death toll hits 1 million

By Associated Press

September 28, 2026 at 3:30 a.m.

On Sept. 28, 2020, the worldwide death toll from the coronavirus pandemic reached 1 million, according...

Gov. JB Pritzker joined Mayor Lori Lightfoot, right, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle, second from left, and public health experts in updating residents on March 12, 2020, in the early days of the pandemic. Illinois, Chicago and Cook County received $11 billion through the American Rescue Plan Act amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A Tribune-University of Chicago Mansueto Institute analysis revealed few efforts to identify potential waste and abuse of that money. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Illinois, Chicago, Cook County got $11B in pandemic aid but there were gaps in oversight and transparency

By Dan Petrella

September 13, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The Tribune and the University of Chicago's Mansueto Institute examined how Illinois, Chicago and Cook...

A certified medical assistant holds a syringe for a flu vaccine at a clinic in Seattle on Sept. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Top US doctors offer updated flu and COVID vaccine recommendations, aiming to ease confusion

By Lauren Neergaard

September 2, 2026 at 9:16 a.m.

Leading U.S. medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this...

Public health officials have seen" elevated" levels of COVID, flu, and RSV circulating in the U.S. ahead of the approaching winter holidays.

Is it COVID, the flu, RSV or just a cold? Here’s what your symptoms could mean

By McClatchy-Tribune News Service

December 26, 2022 at 7:00 a.m.

There's a trio of viruses spreading in the U.S. — COVID-19, the flu and RSV...

Three generations of the Selevredes family, including from the left, Nicole Selevredes, Nick Selevredes, Demetre Selevredes II and Demetre Selevredes III, talk about their business, Federal Supply USA, at a 90th anniversary celebration in 2021.

Lake County family-run businesses hope to benefit from work of congressional group; ‘We’re trying to hang on’

By Lake County News-Sun

December 25, 2022 at 8:04 a.m.

As chairman Demetre Selevredes II walks into Federal Supply USA in Waukegan, he may see...

A hospital worker prepares to perform tests after placing electrodes to the chest of a man sprawled out on a stretcher outside the emergency ward at the Langfang No. 4 People's Hospital in Bazhou city in northern China's Hebei province on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. As China grapples with its first-ever wave of COVID mass infections, emergency wards in the towns and cities to Beijing's southwest are overwhelmed. Intensive care units are turning away ambulances, residents are driving sick relatives from hospital to hospital, and patients are lying on floors for a lack of space.

Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese towns

By Associated Press

December 24, 2022 at 1:45 p.m.

Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China's industrial...

Two signs on the front door of Norton's Restaurant in Highland Park let diners know early in 2022 had to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 before the virus became less of a public concern in Lake County and around the country.

Biden administration releases doses of prescription flu medicine from national stockpile

By Associated Press

December 23, 2022 at 2:13 p.m.

The Biden administration said Wednesday it will release doses of prescription flu medicine from the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the fist term of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, left, with the city's public health commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady in September.

Mayor Lightfoot, Arwady urge masking in public as COVID-19 cases rise

By Gregory Royal Pratt

December 22, 2022 at 4:26 p.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot urged residents to get vaccinated and boosted as the Christmas holiday...

Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health receives a Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine from pharmacist Atenea Gazdziak at a CVS on Nov. 22, 2022.

Masks for the holidays? Amid ‘tripledemic’ of COVID, RSV and flu, some are keeping pandemic precautions as part of their celebrations.

By Angie Leventis Lourgos

December 21, 2022 at 12:42 p.m.

After several years of pandemic isolation during the holidays, Kerry Garcia is hoping to celebrate...

Migrants walk towards the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Pandemic-era immigration restrictions in the U.S. known as Title 42 are set to expire on Dec. 21.

Supreme Court temporarily blocks lifting of asylum restrictions

By Associated Press

March 11, 2024 at 1:11 p.m.

The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers but...

Workers move caskets at a funeral complex in Beijing, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022. Deaths linked to COVID are beginning to appear in China, even as those deaths are not reflected in the official tally. Relatives of people who died in Beijing said their loved ones had tested positive for the coronavirus before their deaths, while employees at shops in one funeral complex said there has been a noticeable uptick in traffic in the past few days.

COVID-linked deaths seen in Beijing after virus rules eased

By Associated Press

December 17, 2022 at 8:44 a.m.

Outside a funeral home in eastern Beijing, dozens of people were bundled up in parkas...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot following an appearance at O'Hare International Airport on Nov. 21.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot tests positive for COVID-19 a second time

By Alice Yin

December 16, 2022 at 4:32 p.m.

For a second time this year, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot tested positive for COVID-19 and...