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“This seems like a move to promote normalcy without there really being normalcy,” said Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “Vaccine mandates are safe and effective public health strategies, and backing down on this is likely to worsen spread.”

Dr. Janelle Bolden, an assistant OB-GYN professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said the report is not surprising.

“There’s so many food conditions, and it’s so important to really understand what you have because you want to know how to manage it, and some of them actually have treatments,” said Dr. Ruchi Gupta, director of the Center for Food Allergy and Asthma, part of Institute for Public Health and Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Northwestern Medicine is part of a program that uses an installation of Epic that depression screens everyone

“No one is ever congratulated when the steps we took prevented something,” Mercedes Carnethon, an epidemiologist and professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, told me. “People say, ‘I did something for nothing. It never happened.’ ”

Being over 65 means putting extra focus on your health, including cutting out bad habits. Dorothy Dunlop, professor of medicine at Feinberg School of Medicine shares that older adults should be as active as possible. She encourages adults over age 60 to find opportunities to replace sitting time with light activity.

Dr. Janelle Bolden, an assistant OB-GYN professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said the report is not surprising.

At Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Dr. Ami Patel, a pediatric infectious disease physician, said workers have seen a steady uptick in MIS-C cases since the end of December. But this is “still relatively lower numbers overall compared to the winter 2020 surge,” she said. During the Delta surge, the hospital saw “relatively few” MIS-C cases.

Dr. Janelle Bolden, an assistant OB-GYN professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said the report is not surprising.

Dr. Janelle Bolden, an assistant OB-GYN professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, said the report is not surprising.