February 10, 2021 05:15 AM
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Bloomberg
ABOUT HALF OF U.S. ADULTS INTEND TO GET THE VACCINE, CDC STUDY FINDS: Confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine grew late last year, with half of U.S. adults surveyed in December saying they were certain or very likely to get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a new report from by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Updated 1/22/2021 8:51 AM
As the state readies to expand COVID-19 immunization next week, Kane County already has begun giving the vaccination to some essential workers in so-called Phase 1b.
Elsewhere, doctors offices and medical providers were cited as a likely route toward getting vaccinated for people in Phase 1b, which includes anyone 65 and older and essential workers, meaning those who can t work at home or who must work closely with others. First responders, teachers, transit workers, manufacturing employees, prison workers and inmates, postal workers, grocery store workers, and shelter and day care staff members are among those in this group.
NorthShore University Health System, whose sites include Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights and Glenbrook Hospital in Glenview, announced Thursday it will communicate with patients age 65 and older by email next week with steps to prepare to receive the vaccine as we get doses.
Updated 1/4/2021 8:26 AM
The merger of Arlington Heights-based Northwest Community HealthCare and Evanston-based NorthShore University HealthSystem took effect Friday, and the CEOs of both companies say existing patients should expect nothing but improved accessibility and affordability of services. This is a driver for growth; there really isn t any downside, NCH President and CEO Steve Scogna said of the merger, announced in July. This is probably the most exciting thing I ve been involved with in my career.
Scogna said he was more comfortable about the merger at its closing than at any other point in the process, and that s significant for both him and the six decades of independence NCH leaves behind.
Updated 12/31/2020 10:02 AM
It s a wonder Father Time still has enough energy to hand over the reins to Baby New Year, considering everything that happened under his watch in 2020. And that old man should forget about getting his damage deposit back.
Americans were still nursing hangovers from New Year s Eve when 2020 got off on the wrong foot with apocalyptic brush fires ravaging Australia. Newspapers were filled with stories about a blast furnace, catastrophic fires, the Armageddon, dystopian wasteland, the deaths of hundreds of millions of animals, and the frantic efforts to make mittens for koalas with burned paws.
OK. Rough start. But the rest of 2020 can only get better, right?