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Also, 60 free days of internet for low income households" would be available starting March 16. [177] On March 26, the City of Chicago closed parks, beaches, the 606 trail network, and the lakefront due to too many people gathering, with violators facing fines and possible arrest. [178] [179]
Two children and two adults in a migrant shelter in Chicago have gotten measles. The CDC is sending in a team of experts.
Epidemic A new disease that is spreading or a previously endemic disease whose infection rate is increasing significantly. [8] [11] Seasonal flu frequently appears as an epidemic. [8] Pandemic An epidemic affecting a very large part of the world, generally multiple countries or multiple continents. [8] Seasonal flu is sometimes a global ...
Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak is a 2020 American documentary series about pandemics. It was released on Netflix on January 22, 2020. [ 1 ] The series covers a range of issues such as the possibility of an influenza pandemic, research into achieving a universal vaccine , emerging viruses, anti-vaxxers , and the Ebola outbreak in Africa .
For the first time in five years, “Chicago Med,” “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago P.D.” are crossing over on Jan. 29. Here's how to watch the episodes and the order they're in.
“Chicago is a blue city and Illinois is a blue state but people are starting to wake up,” Brooks told The Post last week at his church. “It’s not about the person, it’s about the policies.
The opioid epidemic took hold in the U.S. in the 1990s. Percocet, OxyContin and Opana became commonplace wherever chronic pain met a chronic lack of access to quality health care, especially in Appalachia. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls the prescription opioid epidemic the worst of its kind in U.S. history.
An outbreak of cholera in 1849 killed 678 persons, 2.9 percent of the city's population, and an 1854 outbreak killed 1,424 people. Another cholera epidemic hit the city in 1866 and 1867. [5] [6] In the late 19th century, typhoid fever mortality rate in Chicago averaged 65 per 100,000 people a year. The worst year was 1891, when the typhoid ...