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TCR Weekly Briefs: COVID Concerns, Racist Graffiti, First Black-owned McDonald’s Reopens

The Chicago Reporter — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 05:34:23 +0000

Concerns Over Public Schools Not Tracking COVID Boosters As the country deals with a new COVID omicron subvariant known as XBB.1.5, there’s growing concern that Chicago Public Schools does not track which students or staff have gotten the updated omicron booster. Chicago Public Schools continues to track the initial primary series but not the boosters. Data […]

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TCR Weekly Briefs: COVID Concerns, Internet Access For All, Emmett Till & Mother Honored

The Chicago Reporter — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 02:52:29 +0000

Mask Advisory Likely As COVID-19 Cases Rise As Chicago inches closer to being declared a high risk for getting the coronavirus, Mayor Lori Lightfoot urges people to get vaccinated and boosted. “If you haven’t had the COVID-19 vaccine since Labor Day, you’re not up to date,” Lightfoot said at a Thursday news conference. Lightfoot also […]

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Blacks & Latinos Are Most At Risk From Respiratory Viruses

Hugo Balta — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 03:20:39 +0000

CHICAGO| Chicago’s Black and Latino communities are expected to be most affected by a surge of what health experts call a “tridemic.” It is a triple threat from the flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and COVID-19. Here in Illinois, like across many parts of the country, hospitals are seeing a dramatic rise in patients with […]

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A “Familismo” Approach To Latino College Enrollment

Apoorvaa Mandar Bichu — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 19:09:13 +0000

The College of Lake County (CLC), a community college in Illinois recognized as a Hispanic Serving Institution, adopted a cultural response to recruit and retain Latino students in tackling the student deficit it experienced during the pandemic. According to its official enrollment numbers, the response saw a 27 percent increase in Latino student enrollment for […]

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Chinatown Still Struggling Due To Pandemic

Amina Sergazina — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:04:02 +0000

Since the pandemic, Chinatown businesses have faced massive revenue loss and xenophobia from people calling COVID-19 the “Chinese Virus.” Two years later, Chinatown had still not fully recovered. In 2020 former President Donald Trump continuously called COVID-19: the “Chinese Virus” ‘Kung flu” and claimed that it was not racist because it first started in Wuhan, […]

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