The Complicated History Of Religious Exemptions To Vaccines
While resistance to vaccine mandates goes back 200 years, state laws allowing for religious exemptions were rare until the 1960s.
Environment & Public Health
Waste, sustainability, climate change and environmental justice. WBEZ covers our surroundings and the way we coexist with them.
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Why Are Cicadas So Loud?
Cicadas are known for their loud, shrill noises that never seem to stop. But are they louder than usual this year?
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Chicago’s Top Doc Answers Your COVID-19 Questions
Chicago is averaging 433 COVID cases per day — a 10 percent decrease from the week prior.
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Breakthrough COVID: One Health Journalist’s Personal Account
Vaccines are the best weapon against COVID. However, early data shows the Delta variant may be causing a rise in breakthrough infections.
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Congress Is Debating Its Biggest Climate Change Bill Ever. Here’s What’s At Stake
Climate measures in a massive $3.5 trillion economic plan would transform the U.S. energy system.
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Nonprofit Recycles Reusable Materials To Support Chicago Teachers
Creative Chicago Reuse Exchange collects and repairs reusable materials for Chicago teachers.
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Did The Pandemic Give America A Drinking Problem?
We asked listeners how their drinking habits changed during the past 18 months.
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Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change And Say Governments Are Failing Them
A new study shows more than half of young people say climate change makes them feel afraid, sad, anxious, angry, powerless and helpless. And government inaction in particular makes them worried.
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What We Know About Breakthrough Infections And Long COVID
As the delta variant causes more vaccinated people to get “breakthrough infections,” concerns are rising that even the vaccinated could develop long COVID symptoms in rare cases.
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Babies, The Delta Variant And COVID: What Parents Need To Know
The rate of new cases of COVID-19 among babies and children under 4 years old in the U.S. recently surpassed the rate of new cases among adults older than 65. Here’s how to protect newborns.
