COVID-19 Nurse Describes Distressing Patient Conditions; 'They're All Alone'
"I'm just grateful for the opportunity to be able to care for them."
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"I'm just grateful for the opportunity to be able to care for them."
"My sisters were, they were like my mother. I lost my mom five years ago and they were both mother figures to me. If there was anything that I ever needed, they were there."
"Your kids and your teenagers can get this, and they can get it very seriously."
"They should have shut the polling places down. He shouldn't have had to lose his life."
"We just wanted to share what's going on because this could be your family."
"I don't think any of us could have imagined you have a relative that's ill and you can't do anything. So this is something."
A West Rogers Park husband and father of six shared his story of survival with CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot.
"And even after she passed, we wanted to go to view her body at the hospital and they said we could not."
Sources on Tuesday said three finalists have been named to head up the Chicago Police Department.
It's called hydroxychloroquine – a drug in high demand amid the COVID-19 pandemic. There is hope that the drug can be used to treat patients who have the virus. But it is presently used to treat lupus – and lupus patients are suddenly finding it is scarce.
A mother of three was one of the first people diagnosed with COVID-19 in Lake County.
Michael Bane has been hospitalized for days with COVID-19, and he has a very strong message about it.
The cartel is known for sadistically torturing rivals in Mexico and dumping their bodies in the street. Among those now in custody during the six month long DEA operation with local and federal law enforcement are El Mencho's son and daughter.
Loyola Academy is the second Chicago-area school to close because of the corornavirus outbreak. Vaughn Occupational High School in Portage Park will be closed until March 18. A teacher's aide there was diagnosed with the coronavirus.
Sunday is International Women's Day. The DePaul women's basketball team got a jump start on the occasion.
The CBS 2 Morning Insiders are getting facts about the coronavirus, especially when it comes to travel.
An Inspector General's report issued Tuesday sharply criticized a juvenile intervention program run as a partnership between Chicago Police and the city's Department of Family and Support Service.
The officer called a sergeant, telling the sergeant what Gonzalez said. Two sergeants and a lieutenant arrived at the cell. They "unsecured the cell door." That's when they saw Ruiz on the floor near the door covered in blood.
Arrest reports CBS 2 found in court documents show the beating victim Ruiz and his cell mate, are all members of different street gangs.
As the pool of blood around the man's head grows, an inmate throws a joker card, from a deck of playing cards, on top of him. Sources said that's significant, indicating there are ongoing feuds inside the jail taking place between different gangs.
David Garcia-Espinal, the man for whom a warrant has been issued on charges that he put a camera in a Northfield school bathroom, was also once accused of masturbating in a public women's restroom.
Monday is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and there are many events around the area to honor the life and legacy of Dr. King.
As the final details are worked out, it's still not known if the couple will continue to be known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, or if they'll be stripped of their royal titles, since the Queen referred to them by only their first names in her statement.
"We're just getting information back. It's bad in some areas."
More people died from fentanyl overdoses in Cook County last year than from homicide.
