U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider Tests Positive For COVID-19; He Also Had COVID In January 2021
U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Illinois) announced Tuesday that he has tested positive for COVID-19.
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U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Illinois) announced Tuesday that he has tested positive for COVID-19.
Last month, proof of vaccination mandates went into place for restaurants, bars, gyms, and other venues across the Chicago area. But as CBS 2's Chris Tye reported Tuesday, they could soon be going away.
The city's at-home COVID-19 vaccination program will be canceled Wednesday and Thursday due to the winter storm bearing down on the area.
The first confirmed case of the BA.2 subvariant of the Omicron COVID-19 variant has been detected in Illinois.
The Rolling Meadows-based Center for Covid Control COVID-19 testing company ran into new trouble Monday.
The Chicago Public Schools on Friday announced that it will change its isolation policies for those who test positive for COVID-19, and quarantine policies for close contacts, from 10 days to five.
One of the Chicago area's largest COVID testing labs Is currently under investigation as people who took their test at one of the sites never received their results.
Student mask exemptions at St. John's Lutheran School in Lombard began this week and have pushed about a sixth of the school's staff members out the door in protest.
The case was only the second confirmed instance of COVID-19 in the United States at the time. Since then, 70.2 million Americans have been diagnosed with COVID.
Antiviral pills that can significantly reduce COVID-19 hospitalizations and even deaths - but the supply of the Pfizer and Merck COVID-19 pills across the country - and here in our area - is still very limited.
Keeping a workplace as safe as possible from COVID is no easy task. So imagine doing it for a traveling tour of more than 80 people putting on shows for thousands at the Allstate Arena.
COVID numbers are coming down – on Wednesday, we learned that both the city and state have peaked in the last few weeks. Now, the questions are getting louder - when will we see some loosening of rules because of it?
"However, we are a long way from being out of the woods, and it's really important over these next few weeks and months that we continue to work hard on getting folks vaccinated, getting folks tested, continuing to wear masks, because there's a long way to come down," Dr. Allison Arwady said.
Federal help is now coming to UChicago Medicine and their Ingalls Memorial Hospital in Harvey, to assist with the COVID surge and staffing.
