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Dr. Sadiya Khan, an epidemiologist at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, agreed and added that the lack of a coherent vaccine distribution plan is clear evidence the federal government did not learn from its failure to ramp up testing as a means of slowing the spread of the virus.

“Yes, it will be hard and we will need to take iterative steps,” said Dr. Clyde W. Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “But begin is exactly what we should do, and considering the link between poor health, poor education, poor housing and poverty, a case can be made to target economic development in the most vulnerable communities as an important first step.”

As soon as the COVID-19 vaccine became available to her department, Lynn Griesmaier, nurse coordinator for breast medical oncology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, jumped at the opportunity.

“Most of us have struggled with eating and weight gain (during the pandemic),” says Holly Herrington, an advanced clinical dietitian with the Digestive Health Center at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. “Our routines changed, we can’t go to the gym. We’re stress-eating more than ever, I’ve seen it with my patients. In times of anxiety, many of us turn to food.”

“We call it cold and flu season for good reason,” said Dr. Benjamin Singer, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. “Rhinoviruses, which are one of the main causes of the common cold, spike in late fall and early winter, and influenza historically spikes in mid-to-late winter — February, early March.”

“I think the decision to lower the age eligibility for the vaccine rollout is appropriate, particularly when we have significant concerns right now about community spread,” said Dr. Mercedes Carnethon with Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Steve Brandy with the Will County Health Department said the county is trying to get more partners and medical providers involved to help distribute the vaccine.

A new study co-authored by Jain and other doctors at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago revealed physicians are sexually harassed and personally attacked online on the basis of their religion, race or recommendations. About one quarter of doctors said they had been harassed online, according to the study released Monday in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal.

“This is a compelling first step in defining a potential relationship between maternal diet and allergy risk,” said Dr. Peter Lio, a clinical assistant professor of dermatology and pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago.

To better understand how coconut oil behaves when ingested, I consulted two experts, Dr. Frank M. Sacks, nutrition and cardiovascular disease specialist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Dr. Philip Greenland, professor of cardiology at the Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

“We are in the middle of a doom and gloom period. We’re at the highest rate of hospitalizations that we’ve had this entire pandemic, the highest rate of positivity, cities are out of ICU beds,” Dr. Michael Ison, an infectious disease specialist at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, told TODAY. “You don’t need to look forward, we’re there and it’s pretty awful.” Ison warned that if significant mitigation measures aren’t put in place nationally, the number of cases and deaths will continue to rise.