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Are masks required again? Some Chicago area health care settings one again have a face mask requirement, as the flu, COVID and RSV are spreading.

Some Chicago-area health care systems are again requiring visitors to mask up to help mitigate recent spreading of respiratory viruses, mainly influenza, COVID-19 and RSV. Rush is the latest to bring back masks.

Prolonged wait time, exhaustion and uncertainty are symptoms of a U.S. health care system that caters to people with citizenship, medical insurance and means.

Esperanza Mendez worries she may be dying, though she doesn’t say it out loud to her two young children. There is a cyst on her neck, which she said feels like it’s putting pressure on her brain and causing pain in her head. The lump has been growing for three years, and now her whole body aches, especially her arms and legs. She has trouble opening and closing her fists. “I feel terrible. My ...

Esperanza Mendez worries she may be dying, though she doesn’t say it out loud to her two young children. There is a cyst on her neck, which she said feels like it’s putting pressure on her brain and causing pain in her head. The lump has been growing for three years, and now her whole body aches, especially her arms and legs. She has trouble opening and closing her fists. “I feel terrible. My ...