In March when coronavirus was beginning to emerge in Chicago, cases came fast. They doubled every 2 days. Now, they’re doubling every 12 days.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Kristen Schorsch
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot held Chicago’s first virtual City Council meeting Wednesday. They approved new procedural rules to allow them to meet over video conference.
Reporter: Becky Vevea
While the number of Latinos who’ve died of COVID-19 in Cook County remains low, advocates say that number is wrong.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Maria Ines Zamudio
Many Illinoisans are leaving their house every day to fight COVID-19 head-on. Falguni Dave is a nurse who cares for jail detainees being treated at Stroger Hospital on Chicago’s West Side.
Host: Mary Dixon
Producer: Mariah Woelfel
Local leaders have been using predictive models to try and figure out when the worst of the pandemic will pass in Illinois. It's still been difficult to know in the moment whether the worst of the pandemic is over.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Kate McGee
Chicago parents and students are looking to schools to provide a lot more than just academics, as they face heightened stress during the coronavirus school shutdowns.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Susie An, Sarah Karp
A Chicago photographer was caught in the dust cloud that descended over Little Village Saturday morning when the demolition of an industrial smoke stack went wrong.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Linda Lutton
Harold Davis Jr., a Chicago activist who spent over the last two decades of his life mentoring at-risk teens, died of coronavirus on Sunday.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Becky Vevea
As part of WBEZ's ongoing series 'LIfe Interrupted,' we hear from two neighbors who created an I SPY game to help people in their community stay connected.
Host: Melba Lara
Producer: Linda Lutton
Speaker: Lisa Love, Nikki Moustafa
Before becoming the governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker never bargained on a pandemic or foresaw the state’s well-being hinging on “Trump time.”
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Dave McKinney
A pandemic may have closed churches for Easter. But a West Side preacher still has words to comfort his flock.
Host: Annie Russell
Reporter: Linda Lutton
Parents with small children at home are juggling jobs and childcare around the clock. WBEZ reporters know that drill.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Natalie Moore
Cook County nurses are warning the virus won’t stop at the jail’s walls as staff travel home and detainees are transferred from the jail to the hospital.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Shannon Heffernan
At hospitals in Illinois, more and more people died of COVID-19 over the weekend. But there are some signs the spread of the disease could be slowing in state.
Host: Mary Dixon
Reporter: Dan Mihalopoulos
University of Illinois College of Medicine graduated students early so they’re available if and when their residency programs need extra doctors to respond to the new coronavirus pandemic.
Host: Melba Lara
Reporter: Kate McGee
Kathleen Valente’s husband Bob needs a lung transplant. As part of our series Life Interrupted she talks about why she’s more worried about him catching COVID-19.
Host: Melba Lara
Producer: Lynnea Dominik
Zachary Dorner, author of “Merchants of Medicine,” on the Coronavirus and Black Americans
The death of black Americans due to coronavirus at a disproportionately high rate recalls the ways differential mortality reflects and has shaped ideas of inherent bodily difference in the past. Zachary Dorner discusses this connection using ideas and examples from his book Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain’s Long Eighteenth Century (available in May). Data recently collected by The Washington Post (link) point to stark disparities in morbidity and mortality during the current pandemic between black and white Americans. While upsetting, such a finding does not come as a particular surprise to a historian of medicine and empire. (Nor, for that matter, does it to scholars of race or to people whose lived experience is one of unequal health). Such health outcomes are often the result, intended and not, of longstanding policies and practices used to construct the economic and political realities we live with today. Notably, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has attributed his own cardiovascular issues, and therefore susceptibility to the virus, to the “legacy of growing up poor and black in America.” Structural disparities not only contribute to disparate health outcomes as starkly demonstrated this year by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but historically […]
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