Pritzker relaxes COVID-19 vaccine mandates for some health care workers, college students
Vaccine mandates will remain in place for K-12 schools, daycares, and congregate care facilities.
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Vaccine mandates will remain in place for K-12 schools, daycares, and congregate care facilities.
The city remains at "medium level" of virus, per CDC metrics.
The city's goal is to go into neighborhoods to address mental health, even if it starts out with a small group.
President Biden took executive action intended to protect access and privacy related to abortion.
The Indiana Hospital Association said the state will still need about 5,000 more nurses by 2031.
Every state that borders Illinois has or could soon have restrictions on abortion in the wake of the striking down of Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court Friday overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which guaranteed a woman's right to abortion. The ruling sends the issue back to the states. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford reports.
Wisconsin has an 1849 law that bans abortion, except to save the life of the mother, but whether that law is enforceable is expected to be challenged in court.
A Kaiser poll taken earlier this spring found fewer than one in five parents would get their children under 5 vaccinated right away.
Panels of outside vaccine advisers to the CDC and FDA both voted unanimously this week to back the shots from Moderna as well as Pfizer and BioNTech.
"We have been trending in the right direction of late with lower case rates and very few hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19, so we're happy to see this," Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said.
The FDA's panel of vaccine advisers voted unanimously that the benefits of Pfizer's and Moderna's shots outweigh the risks in young children.
Fauci, who is 81, is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice, according to the National Institutes of Health.
As of Monday, the city has now identified seven confirmed cases of monkeypox this year, and the city is working with the Illinois Department of Public Health and other local public health agencies to identify other potential cases.
The second probable case of the virus in Illinois was a close contact of the first case.
