Lake County health officials mark 2-year ‘annimisery’ of COVID-19, the lives lost and heroism of medical personnel

“This is not something to be celebrated,” Pfister said. “COVID-19 has caused much misery the last two years. The No. 1 issue are the deaths. There was misery for health care and other workers who endured many changes. There are still the long haulers who continue to be impacted.”

[Most read] St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago: What time the Chicago River will be dyed Saturday, parade routes and moreThough the disease remains, Pfister and other health care professionals said it was also a time of heroism. The rapid development of a vaccine in less than a year kept the misery from being far more severe. Caution is still advised, even as the risk of getting the virus becomes less.

“We had mass vaccination sites,” Pfister said. “People could go to their pharmacies and their health care providers.” “We’re not quite there yet,” Pfister said. “We’re moving toward endemic where we treat it as we do influenza. We are able to test and prescribers are able to prescribe treatment. We need to have an ample supply of treatment and enough prescribers who understand it.”

[Most read] Kim Foxx says jail sentence for Jussie Smollett might feel ‘like revenge’ as she stands by her office’s early handling of caseNew cases are at a 10-month low in the Chicago area. There were 57.43 new cases on a seven-day rolling average per 100,000 residents for the past week as of Friday, a 47.85% drop from the week before, according to the CDC.

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