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Breaking down the different types of COVID-19 tests — and why Illinois and the nation have struggled with mass testing amid the pandemic

May 14, 2020 at 10:37 a.m.

The rapid spread of COVID-19 has launched a flurry of new tests for the highly contagious virus, as researchers and medical providers race to track and understand the pandemic. Yet...

A vendor displays hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets at a pharmacy in Amritsar, India, on April 27, 2020.

More rigorous study of hydroxychloroquine is getting underway with help of Cook County health researchers

May 8, 2020 at 5:57 p.m.

Despite all the experimentation and debate surrounding the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients, no one really knows if the drug is effective, useless or harmful. That's because of...

Una mujer pasea a su perro en el Parque México, en la colonia La Condesa en la Ciudad de México el 4 de abril de 2020, durante la nueva pandemia de coronavirus COVID-19.

Comunidades latinas fuertemente golpeadas por COVID-19 en Illinois

May 6, 2020 at 2:20 p.m.

A medida que una ola de infecciones por coronavirus se extiende por los vecindarios latinos en Chicago, un centro de salud en el vecindario del barrio de La Villita ha...

Maria Ochoa, 50, inside her home May 5, 2020, in Chicago. Ochoa, her husband and daughter have been sick with COVID-19 and believes her family contracted the virus from her husband's meatpacking job in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

Latino communities in Illinois see uptick in COVID-19 confirmed cases: ‘Physical distancing is a privilege’

May 7, 2020 at 3:24 p.m.

As a wave of coronavirus infections spreads through Latino neighborhoods in Chicago, one health site in Little Village has seen people so sick with the new coronavirus that they've passed...

Dr. Gregory Huhn, an infectious disease physician at Stroger Hospital, is shown May 4, 2020, outside Cook County Health in Chicago.

The drug remdesivir got emergency use clearance from the FDA. What will that mean for treating COVID-19?

May 5, 2020 at 8:16 a.m.

Though the federal government has cleared the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat some COVID-19 patients, don't expect it to be put into routine use anytime soon. The emergency use authorization...

Dr. John Schneider, an infectious disease specialist affiliated with the University of Chicago, works at an office at the Howard Brown Health clinic in Chicago on April 30, 2020.

Gov. Pritzker says coronavirus contact tracing is a key to reopening Illinois. Public health leaders concede the system isn’t ready yet.

May 1, 2020 at 4:47 p.m.

One of the key conditions Gov. J.B. Pritzker says must be met before Illinois can lift its stay-at-home order is a comprehensive way to track, warn and quarantine everyone who...

Northwestern University professor Julius Lucks at his Evanston home on April 21, 2020. Lucks is a professor of chemical and biological engineering who is leading the effort to produce a new rapid coronavirus test.

Northwestern University scientists sprint to develop new kind of rapid coronavirus test

April 21, 2020 at 10:49 p.m.

Northwestern University scientists are racing to develop a new kind of rapid test to detect the novel coronavirus that would be inexpensive, easily mass produced and simple to administer. Their...

Illinois Air National Guard members work on a construction of the McCormick Place alternate care facility in Chicago, April 10, 2020.

McCormick Place gets its first COVID-19 patients

April 17, 2020 at 4:11 p.m.

McCormick Place got its first COVID-19 patients this week as health care professionals begin trying out the hastily built medical center. Patients started arriving Tuesday afternoon, and five were there...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois is expanding testing to include anyone with symptoms, as officials announce state death toll passes 1,000

April 16, 2020 at 8:07 p.m.

Illinois saw its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic yet on Thursday, with officials reporting 125 more fatalities as Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced expanded testing he hopes will get the...

A nurse gives ivermectin to a child in Ivory Coast on Sept. 27, 2008. Ivermectin is used against river blindness, which is caused by a parasitic worm and spread by the bite of an infected blackfly. The drug is used to rid animals and humans of many internal and external, blood-sucking parasites.

Can a drug that kills head lice cure COVID-19 patients? It works in a petri dish, but…

April 16, 2020 at 11:34 a.m.

Add a head lice-killing drug called ivermectin to the list of medicines that researchers are testing as a possible treatment for COVID-19 patients. In a petri dish, the medication eradicates...

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