Fourth Patient Tests Positive For Coronavirus In Illinois

The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is seen in yellow, emerging from cells (in blue and pink) cultured in the lab. This image is from a scanning electron microscope.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is seen in yellow, emerging from cells (in blue and pink) cultured in the lab. This image is from a scanning electron microscope.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is seen in yellow, emerging from cells (in blue and pink) cultured in the lab. This image is from a scanning electron microscope.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is seen in yellow, emerging from cells (in blue and pink) cultured in the lab. This image is from a scanning electron microscope.

Fourth Patient Tests Positive For Coronavirus In Illinois

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University of Chicago Medicine confirmed it is monitoring what could be its first coronavirus case. That would make the fifth in Illinois. Chicago Tribune healthcare reporter Lisa Schencker stops by Reset for more on the story, and how Illinois and Cook County health officials are responding and preparing.