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Early COVID patients recall lonely year Jake Griffin Daily Herald FacebookTwitterEmail PALATINE (AP) — As it turns out, there are no perks to being first in a pandemic. “That’s the wrong lottery to win,” Bob Dix said. It’s been a full year since Dix arrived at the Northwest Community Hospital emergency room in Arlington Heights with a 103-degree temperature that wouldn’t break, confounding doctors who had ruled out the flu, bronchitis and other respiratory ailments. A few days after that hospital admission, he would be diagnosed as the suburbs’ first case of COVID-19. His wife, ...

“That’s the wrong lottery to win,” Bob Dix said. It’s been a full year since Dix arrived at the Northwest Community Hospital emergency room in Arlington Heights with a 103-degree temperature that wouldn’t break, confounding doctors who had ruled out the flu, bronchitis and other respiratory ailments. A few days after that hospital admission, he would be diagnosed as the suburbs’ first case of COVID-19. His wife, Regina, would be the second. The Palatine couple in their late 70s would also be the state’s third and fourth cases of the highly contagious virus t...

The Palatine couple who were the suburbs' first confirmed COVID-19 cases reflect on the year that has gone by since their initial diagnosis.