First 500 hospital beds at McCormick Place to be set up this week
Chicago’s McCormick Place will have 500 temporary hospital beds available by the end of this week, Gov. JB Pritzker said Monday.
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Optometric Association requests postponement of all non-emergency procedures
Illinois optometrists should postpone all non-emergency eye appointments and procedures due to the new coronavirus pandemic, according to guidance from the Illinois Optometric Association.
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Durbin calls on CMS to withdraw proposed Medicaid rule change
Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin joined more than two dozen of his colleagues last week in requesting that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services withdraw a federal rule change that could cause the state to lose millions in its Medicaid program.
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Report: COVID-19 deaths in Illinois expected to peak by mid-April
The number of COVID-19 deaths in Illinois could peak at 91-per-day by mid-April, according to a study by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
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Pritzker pushes testing as COVID-19 cases, deaths mount
Gov. JB Pritzker said Sunday that labs in Illinois could be processing 10,000 COVID-19 tests a day in just over a week.
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