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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
HONORING DR. RACHEL RUBIN AND DR. KIRAN JOSHI FOR THEIR PUBLIC SERVICE
WHERE AS; the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) is the state-certified local public health agency to 125 incorporated municipalities in 30 townships, covering a 700 square mile area, with a large urban population of approximately 2.3 million residents; and
WHERE AS; In late 2019, a new and significant outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in China; and
WHERE AS; On Jan. 21, 2020, the CDC confirmed the first U.S. case of novel coronavirus (now commonly known as COVID-19 or COVID) in a Washington resident; and
WHERE AS; On Jan. 24, 2020, the Cook County, Chicago, and Illinois departments of public health announced they were jointly investigating the second U.S. case in Cook County, Ill.;
WHERE AS; On Jan. 30, 2020, the Cook County, Chicago, and Illinois departments of public health announced the third U.S. COVID case was the husband of the first Cook County case and also the first known case of human-to-human transmission in the U.S.; and
WHERE AS; On Jan. 31, 2020, the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared a public health emergency on January 31, 2020, under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 247d), in response to COVID-19.
WHERE AS; In those first days and weeks of the COVID pandemic, Dr. Rachel Rubin and Dr. Kiran Joshi worked tirelessly around the clock, personally caring for and interviewing the first-known U.S. cases of COVID-19, at a north suburban Cook County hospital, on behalf of CCDPH and Cook County Government, in partnership with local, state, and federal partners; and
WHERE AS; On Mar. 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and on Mar. 13, 2020, the U.S. president and Illinois governor declared national and state emergencies, respectively;
WHERE AS; Growing local, state, and national data began to show disparities in cases counts, and later, h...
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