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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...

Mayor Brandon Johnson at the Chicago Scholars' Onsite College and Leadership Forum on Oct. 24, 2023, at Navy Pier.

As Mayor Brandon Johnson invests in mental health, questions linger about funding for other public health crises

By John Byrne

October 30, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

Mayor Brandon Johnson's first budget comes at a crossroads moment for the Chicago Department of...

John Collier
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Meet Gary’s long-shot Republican candidates

By Post-Tribune

October 20, 2023 at 11:35 a.m.

On Nov. 7, Gary residents will head to the polls to elect a new mayor,...

FILE - A nurse practitioner holds a COVID-19 vaccine card at a New York Health and Hospitals vaccine clinic in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Jan. 10, 2021. Now that COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed through the commercial markets instead of by the federal government in 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention won't be shipping out any more new cards. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Say goodbye to the COVID-19 vaccination card. The CDC has stopped printing them

By Associated Press

October 4, 2023 at 3:42 p.m.

It's the end of an era for a once-critical pandemic document: The ubiquitous white COVID-19...

A pharmacist administers a Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine at a drug store, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in Cypress, Texas. Fall 2023 vaccination season is in full swing, with health officials in the U.S. urging both an updated COVID-19 shot and flu vaccine for most everyone. New this year are vaccines for older adults and women in late pregnancy to guard against another virus named RSV. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP)

What to know as fall vaccinations against COVID, flu and RSV get underway

By Associated Press

September 29, 2023 at 1:59 p.m.

Updated COVID-19 vaccines may be getting a little easier for adults to find but they're...

A Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine is seen at a pharmacy in Cypress, Texas on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Fall 2023 vaccination season is in full swing, with health officials in the U.S. urging both an updated COVID-19 shot and flu vaccine for most everyone.

What to know as fall vaccinations against COVID, flu and RSV get underway

By Associated Press

September 28, 2023 at 9:30 p.m.

Updated COVID-19 vaccines may be getting a little easier for adults to find but they're...

COVID-19 antigen home tests indicating a positive result, April 5, 2023. The Biden administration has announced that it is providing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household.

Free COVID tests available again; Chicago hospitalizations rise

By Jake Sheridan

September 25, 2023 at 6:29 p.m.

The federal government is bringing back its offer of free at-home tests for COVID-19. The...

COVID-19 antigen home tests indicating a positive result are photographed in New York, April 5, 2023. The Biden administration has announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household.

Biden administration announces $600M to produce COVID tests; will reopen website to order them

By Associated Press

September 20, 2023 at 4:30 p.m.

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce...

A Pfizer single-dose vial of the company's updated COVID vaccine for adults. U.S. regulators have approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, shots aimed at revving up protection this fall and winter. The Food and Drug Administration's decision Monday is part of a shift to treat fall COVID-19 vaccine updates much like getting a yearly flu shot.

New COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Chicago, experts answer questions

By Jake Sheridan

September 15, 2023 at 5:00 a.m.

The new COVID-19 vaccine designed to better target the virus' spreading variants has started to...

Syringes with vaccines are prepared at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif.

Can you get the new COVID vaccine and the flu shot at the same time?

By The New York Times

September 13, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.

Most Americans will be eligible for both the new monovalent COVID vaccine and the annual...

Antero Bownmccoard, an 8th-grader at Leland & Gray Union Middle and High School gets a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot during a vaccine clinic held by Rescue Inc. at Leland & Gray Middle and High School, in Townshend, Vt., on Sept. 20, 2022.

What to know about the new COVID booster shots

By The New York Times

September 13, 2023 at 8:27 a.m.

Two new COVID shots have received the green light from the Food and Drug Administration....