Month: December 2020

Nearly 37,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in November, the most in any month since the dark early days of the pandemic, engulfing families in grief, filling newspaper obituary pages and testing the capacity of morgues, funeral homes and hospitals. Amid the resurgence, states have begun reopening field hospitals to handle an influx of patients that is pushing health care systems — and their workers — to the breaking point. Hospitals are bringing in mobile morgues. And funerals are being livestreamed or performed as drive-by affairs. Health officials fear the crisis will be even worse in coming weeks, after many Americans ignored pleas to stay home over Thanksgiving and avoid people who don’t live with them. “I have no doubt that we’re going to see a climbing death toll ... and that’s a hor...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago health officials said Tuesday they anticipate they will begin vaccinating people for COVID -19 by the third week of December. "I think it's likely that we will be vaccinating here in Chicago, probably the third week of December or the fourth week of December depending on how the federal timeline pays out," said Dr. Allison Arwady, Chicago Department of Public Health commissioner. "Which means literally two weeks from today, we could be talking about vaccination." WATCH: Chicago's top doctor discusses COVID-19 vaccine plan Vaccine advisers to the CDC voted 13-1 Tuesday to recommend both health care workers and residents of long term care facilities be first in line for any vaccines that receive FDA emergency use authorization. The decision is non-binding. It will ...