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The DePaulia
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The Student Newspaper of DePaul University

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People gather on the shoreline in Destin, Fla., Wednesday, March 18, 2020.

Spring breakers travel to Florida despite COVID-19

Maria Guerrero, La DePaulia Managing Editor • March 31, 2020

Spring Breakers continue with their travel vacation plans despite COVID-19 outbreaks. Lauren Stamatopoulos, 19, a University of Kentucky student whose family resides in Addison, Illinois, said her family...

Medical personnel help each other at a federal COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in the parking lot of Walmart in North Lake, Ill., Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The new coronavirus cause mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

Coronavirus could close Illinois community health centers

Associated Press • March 29, 2020

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Hundreds of health care facilities in Illinois that largely serve low-income and minority communities are facing financial chaos because they've canceled most routine doctor...

Residents enjoy the warm weather with a stroll along the Lakefront Trail near Oak Street Beach, Wednesday afternoon, March 25, 2020, in Chicago, despite a stay-at-home order from Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker during the coronavirus pandemic. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.

Lack of social distancing leads to closure of parks, trails

Associated Press • March 27, 2020

OAK PARK, Ill. (AP) — It was a sunny day, the first in about a week when temperatures had climbed past the 50-degree mark, and people in Chicago did what they always do on such a day: They flocked to...

DePaul faculty, staff donate almost all protective gear to local hospitals fighting COVID-19

DePaul faculty, staff donate almost all protective gear to local hospitals fighting COVID-19

Ella Lee, Print Managing Editor • March 26, 2020

On March 20, Susan Dawson received an email from a staffer at Mount Sinai’s Holy Cross Hospital asking DePaul for help.  “We are in desperate need of masks,” read the email, which asked for other...

A victim of the Covid-19 virus is evacuated from the Mulhouse civil hospital, eastern France, Monday March 23, 2020. The Grand Est region is now the epicenter of the outbreak in France, which has buried the third most virus victims in Europe, after Italy and Spain. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness.

What you need to know today about the coronavirus outbreak

Associated Press • March 23, 2020

The head of the World Health Organization says the coronavirus outbreak is accelerating but insists “we can change the trajectory of this pandemic.” More than 1.5 billion people — one-fifth of the...

Medical personnel at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, conduct drive-thru COVID-19 testing in Park Ridge, Ill., Wednesday, March 18, 2020.

Ill. coronavirus cases top 200, include 42 tied to nursing home

Associated Press • March 19, 2020

An additional 128 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Illinois, including 20 more individuals living or working at a nursing home in a southwestern suburb of Chicago, state officials announced...

A Caltrans freeway sign reads: Wash your hands, Stay healthy, Avoid COVID-19 in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for all bars, wineries, nightclubs and brewpubs to close in the nations most populous state. Also Sunday, he urged seniors and people with chronic health conditions to isolate themselves at home in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

COLUMN: Stop saying ‘only’ the elderly and immunocompromised

Cailey Gleeson, News Editor • March 16, 2020

Not everyone has the privilege of being young, healthy and without risk. It may not be you, but you definitely know someone that fits into one — or all — of those categories. An estimated 60...

A Caltrans freeway sign reads: Wash your hands, Stay healthy, Avoid COVID-19 in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for all bars, wineries, nightclubs and brewpubs to close in the nations most populous state. Also Sunday, he urged seniors and people with chronic health conditions to isolate themselves at home in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

US moves nearer to shutdown amid coronavirus fears

Associated Press • March 16, 2020

Officials across the country curtailed many elements of American life to fight the coronavirus outbreak on Sunday, with health officials recommending that groups of 50 or more don't get together and a...

In this Tuesday, March, 10, 2020 photo, paramedics test samples taken from patients suspected of being infected with the new coronavirus, at a laboratory in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, Iran. For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia.

WHO declares coronavirus crisis a pandemic, urges world to fight

Associated Press • March 11, 2020

GENEVA (AP) — Expressing alarm both about mounting infections and inadequate government responses, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, foreground, along with Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, third from left, and public health officials provide updated public guidance around the coronavirus, during a press conference at the Thompson Center, Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, in Chicago.

J.B. Pritzker: COVID-19 risk is low, but officials prepared

Associated Press • February 29, 2020

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The risk of contracting potentially deadly COVID-19 in Illinois remains low, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Friday as Chicago's mayor and state and city health officials joined him...

Visitors wearing face masks walk near the Gwanghwamun, the main gate of the 14th-century Gyeongbok Palace, and one of South Koreas well-known landmarks, in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020. South Koreas Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip says the outbreak has entered a serious new phase but expressed cautious optimism that it can be contained to the region surrounding Daegu, where the first case was reported on Tuesday.

Infections climb in South Korea as world fights coronavirus

Associated Press • February 22, 2020

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea reported an eight-fold jump in viral infections Saturday with more than 400 cases mostly linked to a church and a hospital, while the death toll in Iran climbed...

A bus leaves the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship at a port Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020, in Yokohama, near Tokyo. The U.S. says Americans aboard a quarantined ship will be flown back home on a chartered flight Sunday, but that they will face another two-week quarantine.

Senate explores US policies to handle global pandemics

Jonathan DeCarlo • February 16, 2020

The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a roundtable hearing on Feb. 12 with top experts in the public health sector. The title of the hearing was “Are We Prepared? –...

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