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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.
It's 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.