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A lack of vitamin D may be associated with a higher risk for getting COVID-19, according to newly published research out of the University of Chicago. Researchers looked at 489 patients tested for COVID-19 at University of Chicago Medicine between March 3 and April 10, whose vitamin D levels had been measured within a year…

A unique COVID-19 virus that spread through Chicago appears to link directly to an early outbreak in China and might not spread as easily and as rapidly as the virus prevalent in New York and elsewhere in the United States, according to new research. In a preliminary study of genetic makeup of the coronavirus in…

Northwestern University researchers have discovered Chicago has a unique COVID-19 virus strain that appears to be directly linked from the early outbreak in China, the university said in a news release Thursday. Another variant discovered in Chicago COVID-19 patients, which happens to be the predominant variant worldwide, and in the U.S. is centered in New…

Officials confirmed on Wednesday that the death of a 9-month-old in March was caused, in part, by COVID-19. Joseph Myles, the youngest known victim in Cook County of the virus so far, was pronounced dead on March 23 at Mercy Hospital in Chicago. The infant died of viral pneumonia due to coronavirus NL-63 and the…

PARK RIDGE, Ill. — Dr. Frank Belmonte with Advocate Children’s Hospital is warning parents about a rare COVID-19 complication that threatens children. First identified in Europe and later in New York, it now appears the mysterious ailment may have reached the Chicago area. Belmonte told WGN that doctors are working with a young patient at Advocate…