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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...

A worker in protective clothing keeps watch as residents wearing face masks stand near metal barriers set up around shuttered shop houses that were locked down as part of COVID-19 controls in Beijing on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022.

China eases some quarantine for travelers

By baiduhai

November 11, 2022 at 6:43 a.m.

Travelers arriving in China will spend less time in quarantine under changes to sweeping anti-virus...

A patient suffering from lingering symptoms of COVID-19 wears a pulse oximeter to keep track of his oxygen intake as he works out on the treadmill during physical therapy at National Jewish Health on March 3, 2021, in Denver.

People with long COVID face barriers to government disability benefits

By Associated Press

November 10, 2022 at 7:13 a.m.

When Josephine Cabrera Taveras was infected with COVID-19 in spring 2020, she didn't anticipate that...

Visto en la pantalla de un dispositivo en Sausalito, California, el CEO de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, anuncia el nuevo nombre de la compañía, Meta, durante un evento virtual el jueves 28 de octubre de 2021. (Foto AP/Eric Risberg)

Meta, matriz de Facebook, despide a 11,000 empleados

By Associated Press

November 9, 2022 at 12:07 p.m.

La empresa matriz de Facebook, Meta, despedirá a 11,000 personas, el equivalente a cerca del...

With his mother Anne, 1-year-old James Judge gets his 12-month set of vaccines from nurse Meghan Elwess at Lurie Children's Primary Care — Town & Country Pediatrics on Oct. 18, 2022, in Chicago.

Routine childhood vaccinations in Illinois dropped during the pandemic, worrying pediatricians

By Lisa Schencker

November 8, 2022 at 6:47 a.m.

In Illinois, routine childhood vaccinations against diseases such as measles, polio and whooping cough slipped...

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz is shown at the defense table during victim impact statements in the sentencing hearing in Cruz's trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Monday, Nov. 1, 2022. Cruz, who plead guilty to 17 counts of premeditated murder in the 2018 shootings, is the most lethal mass shooter to stand trial in the U.S. He was previously sentenced to 17 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for 17 additional counts of attempted murder for the students he injured that day. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Familiares de víctimas fustigan al multiasesino de Parkland

By Associated Press

November 1, 2022 at 4:03 p.m.

Los familiares de los 17 niños y empleados que fueron asesinados en la masacre escolar...

Un trabajador de salud utiliza un oxímetro de pulso para determinar el nivel de saturación de oxígeno en un paciente, en un hospital en Gauhati, India, 21 de enero de 2021. (AP Foto/Anupam Nath, File)

Color de piel afectaría lecturas de los oxímetros de pulso

By Associated Press

November 1, 2022 at 1:45 p.m.

Las autoridades sanitarias en Estados Unidos están examinando los aparatos que miden el nivel de...

This 1981 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows an electron micrograph of Respiratory Syncytial Virus, also known as RSV.

Vaccinating pregnant women protects their newborns from RSV, new study suggests

By Associated Press

November 1, 2022 at 7:33 a.m.

New research shows vaccinating pregnant women helped protect their newborns from the common but scary...

Pfizer rides Paxlovid sales to better-than-expected quarter

By Associated Press

November 1, 2022 at 7:09 a.m.

Pfizer's COVID-19 treatment helped the pharmaceutical giant balance tumbling international sales for its coronavirus vaccine...

Nurse Kathryn Webb prepares an Influenza vaccine ahead of a press conference on bivalent booster shot at Dallas County Health and Human Services on Sept. 15, 2022.

Flu vaccine may reduce risk of stroke, study suggests

By Mayo Clinic News Network

October 31, 2022 at 7:23 a.m.

Getting a flu shot may offer an added benefit. A recent study published in Stroke, an American Heart...

Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, gives an update on schools and COVID-19 at City Hall in Chicago on Jan. 4, 2022.

Top public health official predicts Chicago will move back into medium risk level for COVID-19 this winter

By Maddie Ellis

October 28, 2022 at 2:10 p.m.

Dr. Allison Arwady, the commissioner for the Chicago Department of Public Health, predicted Friday that...