CHICAGO (WLS) -- With more than a million people unemployed in Illinois, here's a job you can do to be a real asset to your community and you don't need any prior experience. It's COVID-19 contact tracing, and by making a few calls, you could save lives and get paid.The city of Chicago is expected…
If you or a family member test positive for the coronavirus in Camden County, the official calling to ask about your symptoms and advise you to quarantine might be a health inspector, a school nurse or even a police detective.Like health departments all over the state, the county has rushed to train other government workers…
In the past couple months, coronavirus has upended multiple industries, forcing tens of millions of people out of the workforce. But some jobs, like contact tracing, have become all the more necessary due to the pandemic.Not only do experts predict an immediate need of at least 100,000 contact tracers in the U.S., but in some states…
Gary Craig, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Published 5:00 a.m. ET May 9, 2020 | Updated 9:59 a.m. ET May 9, 2020CLOSE New York City announced Friday it is launching a contact tracing corps to identify and treat people infected with the new coronavirus and prevent spread. (May 8) AP DomesticIn only a week, New York…
In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson Nutrition’s acidified liquid human milk fortifier — a nutritional supplement used in
4 min read WHEN YOU'RE TELLING a horror story that's based around a family function or family dynamic, it's important to make sure you're getting the parents just right. Ari Aster's Hereditary, which came out in 2018, hit the nail right on the head, casting Toni Collette as the film's lead—and the increasingly unhinged (and
Dietitians regularly talk up the importance of having variety in your diet to make sure you hit your nutritional needs. But new research suggests that’s actually not helpful—at least, not when you’re trying to lose weight. The study, which was published in the journal Health Psychology, makes a strong case for sticking with the same