<?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 9/20/2023 at 10:30 AM</title><link>https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=CalendarDetail&amp;From=RSS&amp;ID=1119158&amp;GUID=18D201C7-64E3-4F92-83E9-2EB27566BE31</link><description /><generator>Legistar</generator><ttl>15</ttl><atom:link href="https://cook-county.legistar.com/Feed.ashx?GUID=18D201C7-64E3-4F92-83E9-2EB27566BE31&amp;ID=1119158&amp;M=CalendarDetail" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><item><title>23-4891</title><link>https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&amp;From=RSS&amp;ID=6348020&amp;GUID=BB8163EB-5EB3-43B4-8659-E2BE60D8361F</link><guid isPermaLink="false">BB8163EB-5EB3-43B4-8659-E2BE60D8361F-2023-09-26-18-25-34</guid><description>File #: 23-4891&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 7/19/2023&lt;br /&gt;Action: approve&lt;br /&gt;Result: Pass</description><category>Committee Minutes</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:25:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>23-3564</title><link>https://cook-county.legistar.com/Gateway.aspx?M=LD&amp;From=RSS&amp;ID=6289067&amp;GUID=FBDC2DD7-AB23-44A2-8B66-737339373143</link><guid isPermaLink="false">FBDC2DD7-AB23-44A2-8B66-737339373143-2023-09-26-18-25-34</guid><description>File #: 23-3564&lt;br /&gt;Ver.: 1&lt;br /&gt;Agenda #: &lt;br /&gt;Type: Report&lt;br /&gt;Title: REPORT

Department:  Cook County Department of Public Health   

Report Title:  Cook County Department of Public Health Semi-Annual Health Outcome Disparities Report  

Report Period:  January- June 2023  

Summary:  This is the semi-annual Health Outcome Disparities Report provided by the Cook County Department of Public Health.&lt;br /&gt;Action: approve&lt;br /&gt;Result: Pass</description><category>Report</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:25:34 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>