As spring moves along, a six-letter word is at the forefront of many minds. That word is “normal.” And some people can hardly wait to get back to it (aka the way we lived before the pandemic). Others, like Lombard resident Valerie Antunes Koch, are anxious about returning to normal life too soon. Antunes Koch, a behavior intervention specialist with the School Association for Special Education .
Rockin doctors celebrate co-workers with concert at Central DuPage Hospital
Dr. Anthony Altimari, right, a general surgeon and president of the medical staff at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital, played a concert Friday with his band Vital Signs, including guitarist Mike Flynn, left, as a thank you to the front-line nurses and staff. Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
Nurses and staff enjoy a free lunch and rock concert Friday at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
Emily Altimari, sings with Vital Signs Friday during a concert for staff at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield. Emily works in Northwestern Medicine s communications department. Her father, Dr. Anthony Altimari, left, and John Kufrin, right, sing along during the concert.
Updated 5/12/2021 7:42 AM
Julie Herrera never really had to ask her 12-year-old daughter Ella if she wanted to get a COVID-19 vaccine. I think she knew it had been approved for kids her age before I did, the Naperville mother of two teenagers said. She asked me today if I d made her an appointment, and I had to tell her they weren t available yet.
While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved use of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine Monday for anyone 12 and older, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immunization panel still has to authorize its use for 12- to 15-year-olds. That move is expected Wednesday.
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Perfectly Healthy Girl, 15, Dies From COVID Two Days After Positive Test
On 5/7/21 at 6:44 AM EDT
A fifteen-year-old girl from Illinois has died from COVID-19 just two days after testing positive for the disease.
Dykota Morgan, a freshman at Bolingbrook High School, had recently celebrated her fifteenth birthday. But on Sunday, the teen told her parents that she was not feeling good. Sunday, we were out early and she called us and said she woke up feeling dizzy and weak and she was coughing on the phone, Krystal Morgan, the girl s mother, told WGN9.
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The family said their daughter, who excelled in school and athletics, had no known pre-existing conditions and had been perfectly healthy until recently, although she had complained of a headache on Saturday, CBS Chicago reported.