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Public Health Officials Announce Fifth Case of COVID-19
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and Cook County Department of Public Health (CDPH) today announced a fifth Illinois resident has tested positive at the IDPH laboratory for coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The specimens have been sent to the Centers for...
Public Health Officials Announce New Presumptive Positive COVID-19 Case
A fourth case (IDPH lab positive test result) was announced on Mar. 2, 2020, by IDPH and CCDPH.The patient is a woman in her 70s and the spouse of the third case. She is in isolation at home and cooperating with health officials. Read the full press release here.
New Presumptive Positive COVID-19 Case in Cook County, IL
A third case (presumptive positive) was announced on Feb. 29, 2020, by IDPH and CCDPH.CDC protocols have been implemented. We are awaiting confirmation of the positive test results from the CDC lab. The patient is a man in his 70s and hospitalized in isolation. Read...
Public Health Officials Announce Two Chicago Patients Released From Home Isolation
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) and Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) are today announcing the two Chicago area patients confirmed as having had coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were released...
Public Health Officials Report Local Progress in Containing Novel Coronavirus
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH), the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), and the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) today reported encouraging progress in containing the local spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and...
Second Illinois 2019 Novel Coronavirus Case Identified
On Jan. 30, The second CDC-confirmed case was announced in the husband of the first case jointly by Chicago, Cook County and Illinois departments of public health. He was also the first case of human-to-human transmission in the U.S. Read the press release in English,...
City of Chicago Announces First Local Patient with Travel-Related Case of 2019-Novel Coronavirus
On Jan. 24, the first CDC-confirmed case was announced in a Chicago area resident with a history of travel to Wuhan, China. Read the press release, City of Chicago Announces First Local Patient with Travel-Related Case of 2019-Novel Coronavirus...read here.
Second travel-related case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus detected in United States
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed the second infection with 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in the United States has been detected in Illinois. The patient recently returned from Wuhan, China, where an outbreak of respiratory...
Cook County Public Health Awarded $4.7M in Opioid Grants This Year
Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) has received $4.7 million in grant funding this year to prevent opioid overdose deaths and increase access to and use of evidence-based substance use treatment programs... Click here to view the press release.
Cook County Launches Opioid Story Map for Awareness Day
In honor of Opioid Awareness Day, tomorrow, August 31, Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH), is announcing the release of an interactive Opioid Story Map, developed in partnership with Cook County Bureau of Technology. Click here to view the press release.
Updated January 5, 2024, 10:42 AM
