<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Board of Commissioners of Cook County - Meeting of Health &amp; Hospitals Committee on 4/16/2024 at 1:00 PM</title><link>https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=CalendarDetail&amp;From=RSS&amp;ID=1190224&amp;GUID=03C74EB3-6551-4DCC-9FA4-F3C3DDC039C0</link><description /><generator>Legistar</generator><ttl>15</ttl><atom:link href="https://cook-county.legistar.com/Feed.ashx?GUID=03C74EB3-6551-4DCC-9FA4-F3C3DDC039C0&amp;ID=1190224&amp;M=CalendarDetail" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><item><title>24-2645</title><link>https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&amp;From=RSS&amp;ID=6630708&amp;GUID=FF8DAA2E-C121-44C0-8060-6B91E6F23205</link><guid isPermaLink="false">FF8DAA2E-C121-44C0-8060-6B91E6F23205-2024-05-06-14-03-37</guid><description>File #: 24-2645&lt;br /&gt;Ver.: 1&lt;br /&gt;Agenda #: &lt;br /&gt;Type: Committee Minutes&lt;br /&gt;Title: COMMITTEE MINUTES

Approval of the minutes from the meeting of 03/12/2024&lt;br /&gt;Action: approve&lt;br /&gt;Result: Pass</description><category>Committee Minutes</category><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 14:03:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>23-3815</title><link>https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&amp;From=RSS&amp;ID=6274308&amp;GUID=1FE3FCDA-2B1B-450E-BBBA-E63280AAC78B</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1FE3FCDA-2B1B-450E-BBBA-E63280AAC78B-2026-01-16-17-06-33</guid><description>File #: 23-3815&lt;br /&gt;Ver.: 1&lt;br /&gt;Agenda #: &lt;br /&gt;Type: Resolution&lt;br /&gt;Title: PROPOSED RESOLUTION

REQUESTING A MEETING OF THE COOK COUNTY HEALTH AND HOSPITALS COMMITTEE TO RECEIVE AN UPDATE FROM COOK COUNTY HEALTH AND THE COOK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH ON THEIR COVID-19 AND OTHER DISEASES OF CONCERN IMMUNIZATION and MITIGATION PLANS IN SUBURBAN COOK COUNTY

WHEREAS, on January 27, 2020, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services declared that COVID-19, a respiratory illness spread by close contact through respiratory droplets, presents a public health emergency, and the World Health Organization characterized the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic on March 11, 2020; and

WHEREAS, despite advances in treatment protocols and the availability of vaccines, COVID-19 continues to be a serious disease across the U.S. and Cook County, and;

WHEREAS, as of November 30, 2022, there have been 655,646 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 in Suburban Cook County under the jurisdiction of the Cook County Department of Public Health with 7,309 reported deaths; and

WHEREAS, on August 31, 2022, the FDA amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of&lt;br /&gt;Action: defer&lt;br /&gt;Result: Pass</description><category>Resolution</category><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:06:33 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>