Joliet Barber Returns Home After Spending Weeks In Hospital For COVID-19
A healthy father of five who says he has never been sick before until he was on his deathbed is home for the first time in three weeks after surviving COVID-19.
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A healthy father of five who says he has never been sick before until he was on his deathbed is home for the first time in three weeks after surviving COVID-19.
Thousands of small businesses have been put on hold after the feds announced that its $349 billion dollar Paycheck Protection Program is out of money. And as CBS 2 Investigator Pam Zekman reports they may be out of business before Congress approves more funding.
The IRS boasts that 80 million stimulus payments have already been made . What the agency can't say is how many people are having problems getting their hands on that promised relief.
The first beds are now in use at the McCormick Place field hospital in Chicago. In just 26 days the facility was turned into an alternative care facility for people with mild to severe cases of COVID-19.
"The business community is hurting. We know the need is great."
Gov. Prizker is ordering all schools across Illinois will be closed for the rest of the year due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Weiss Hospital said it has been they've been hit hard by COVID-19. The hospital said it serves an elderly population, half of which are Medicare recipients.
The emergency room was closed earlier this month after public health officials determined it was impossible to maintain proper social distancing with the existing configuration.
Saturday morning winds could help get rid of the fog after sunrise.
Illinois Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said Illinois now has 27,575 cases of COVID-19 in 92 counties, including 1,134 deaths. A total of 130,163 people have been tested so far.
City officials are not releasing the number of patients being treated at McCormick Place, but said it began accepting patients on Tuesday.
"While we are taking vigorous action to hold the developer and its subcontractors accountable and protect the health and safety of our local residents, we are also laying the groundwork to ensure failures like this never happen again."
Officer Ronald Newman, 59, died overnight. The name of the CTA employee, a bus mechanic since 2000, has not yet been released, while the city notifies his family.
Emme is hoping to be adopted into a home with another friendly cat and kids older than 12.
