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After a sharp decline in COVID-19 activity over the summer, admissions for the virus at Naperville’s Edward Hospital are starting to climb again. While the numbers are not quite as high as this time last year, the hospital has admitted 14 to 18 patients every week since the start of August, said Jonathan Pinsky, Edward’s medical director of infection control and prevention. That’s an uptick ...

State health experts caution about an uptick in COVID-19 cases. Meanwhile, a new vaccine is projected to tackle "Kraken" this fall.

Monthly COVID deaths dropped to an all-time low in June for Illinois with just 41 recorded for the month, which also follows a steep decline in hospitalizations statewide as well.

Suburban doctors reflect on the challenges and triumphs theyve witnessed during three years on the front lines of a pandemic and how COVID-19 likely changed health care practices forever.

Suburban doctors reflect on the challenges and triumphs theyve witnessed during three years on the front lines of a pandemic and how COVID-19 likely changed health care practices forever.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 declined as did the number of counties at an elevated risk level in the past week, even as the Kraken strain accelerated, officials said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of respitaroty virus surge following the holidays amid medicine shortages in several states.

Illinois is seeing rapid increases in COVID-19 hospitalizations and new cases over the past week, worrying some medical leaders about the pressure on hospitals as cases of other respiratory illnesses grow as well.

Its not universal, but a number of health care systems and their affiliated hospitals in the suburbs will continue to require face masks, after the state relaxed COVID-19 masking rules at health care facilities such as hospitals and medical offices, and as hospitalizations from COVID-19 are ticking up.

What state and local public health officials are saying about the latest COVID-19 vaccine booster becoming an annual inoculation, like the flu shot.