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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...

Nurses organize medical equipment in patient care areas to set up the obstetrics unit at Advocate Trinity Hospital on the South Side of Chicago in 2020.

Advocate Health Care shifting to optional masking policies as COVID-19 cases remain low in Illinois

By Robert Channick

March 26, 2023 at 6:06 p.m.

With COVID-19 cases declining statewide, Advocate Health Care is shifting to optional masking policies and...

Pfizer, left, and Moderna bivalent COVID-19 vaccines are readied for use at a clinic on Nov., 17, 2022, in Richmond. Va. President Joe Biden's order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 was blocked Thursday, March 23, 2023, by a federal appeals court.

Court blocks COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees

By Associated Press

March 24, 2023 at 3:45 p.m.

President Joe Biden's order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been blocked by...

A group of people jog along White Rock Lake Trial at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2022.

Proponen prohibir pantalones de jogging en escuelas

By Contributed Content

March 24, 2023 at 9:44 a.m.

La Deutsche-Knigge-Gesellschaft (sociedad alemana Knigge) se mostró a favor de aprobar una prohibición del uso...

Moderna CEO and Director Stephane Bancel testifies before the Senate HELP Committee on the price of the COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Senators press Moderna CEO on COVID-19 vaccine price hike

By Associated Press

March 22, 2023 at 7:24 p.m.

Moderna's CEO on Wednesday defended a plan to more than quadruple the company's COVID-19 vaccine...

The WGN Radio 720 studio in downtown Chicago on May 17, 2022.

John Williams: Telling jokes on WGN radio was a chance to share laughter during the pandemic

By John Williams

March 21, 2023 at 1:25 p.m.

Three years ago on Thursday, March 23, Illinois' COVID-19 death toll stood at 12. The...

The director of the National Reference Centre for Invasive Fungus Infections, Oliver Kurzai, holding in his hands a petri dish holding the yeast Candida auris in a laboratory of Wuerzburg University in Wuerzburg, Germany, Jan. 23, 2018.

Deadly fungus Candida auris spread rapidly during the pandemic, CDC says

By The New York Times

March 21, 2023 at 8:56 a.m.

A deadly fungus that is considered an urgent public health threat by the Centers for...

ARCHIVO - Gente con mascarillas en un concierto en Barcelona, España, el 27 de marzo de 2021. Con una de las tasas de vacunación más altas de Europa y una de las economías más golpeadas por la pandemia, el gobierno español prepara el terreno para tratar el próximo brote no como una emergencia, sino como una enfermedad que está aquí para quedarse. Portugal y Gran Bretaña estudian enfoques similares. (AP Foto/Emilio Morenatti, Archivo)

Biden accede a desclasificar información sobre origen de pandemia COVID-19

By Contributed Content

March 20, 2023 at 6:25 p.m.

El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, ha firmado este lunes la Ley del Origen...

Staff members of Sarasota Memorial Hospital are bewildered by critics waging a campaign against federal guidelines on COVID treatment.

COVID politics leave a Florida public hospital shaken

By The New York Times

March 20, 2023 at 9:33 a.m.

The turmoil at Sarasota Memorial, one of Florida's largest public hospitals, began last year after...

Members of staff of the Wuhan Hygiene Emergency Response Team drive their vehicle as they leave the closed Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei, Province on Jan. 11, 2020.

New data links COVID pandemic’s origins to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market in China

By The New York Times

March 17, 2023 at 8:13 a.m.

An international team of virus experts said Thursday that they had found genetic data from...

Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. The COVID-19 medication won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisors on Thursday, March 16, 2023, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval after being used by millions of Americans under emergency use.

COVID-19 pill Paxlovid moves closer to full FDA approval

By Associated Press

March 16, 2023 at 5:03 p.m.

Pfizer's COVID-19 pill Paxlovid won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisers Thursday, clearing...