A baby born after a partner’s death. The ‘Tamale Guy,’ left with a raspy voice but working again. A girl, 13, and a grandmother, both struggling with long COVID. A nurse, exhausted but pushing on. All share a sense of loss and a need to push on.
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People gather in the driveway and on the lawn outside Melanie Kupchynsky’s home in River Forest in August for a porch concert that Kupchynsky, who plays the violin with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, put together with her husband and a handful of other musicians. It was her way of coping with not being able to perform regularly.
Provided A year ago Sunday, the city’s top public health official announced the first case of the novel coronavirus in Illinois a Chicago woman who’d recently returned from a trip to Wuhan, China.
In a calm, cheerful voice, Dr. Allison Arwady said it was an isolated case and that the risk to the public “remains low at this time.”