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Illinois public health adopts new COVID guidelines
(WCIA) — The CDC changed its longstanding guidance for Americans Friday, shortening the wait time after a positive COVID-19 test ... Urbana Public Health District. The new guidelines only ...
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Two years — and five surges — after Illinois’ first COVID-19 case, latest metrics ‘headed in the right direction’
Patricia Frieson, who died March 16, 2020 at age 61, was the first known coronavirus-related death in Illinois ... director of the Illinois Public Health Department, said in a statement.
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Daily Herald opinion: Five years after Illinois’ first COVID-19 diagnosis, we remember the heroes and hardships
Case numbers, hospitalization rates and death ... in Illinois at one point in 2021. Five years later, more than 7 million people have died from COVID-19, according to the World Health Organization.