State and city health officials today announced Friday, Feb. 5, the first case in Illinois of the COVID-19 variant called P.1, which was first identified in travelers from Brazil during routine airport screening in Tokyo, Japan, in early January. The case in Chicago was identified by the Pathogen Genomics research[Read More…]

Illinois and Chicago public health officials announced Friday the discovery of the first case in Illinois of the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7, first identified in the United Kingdom. The case was identified by the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine through sequencing analysis of a specimen from bio-banked samples of COVID-19[Read More…]