University of Chicago among hospitals eliminating COVID-19 units as number of patients drops – Chicago Tribune

“Part of the regular day-to-day function of the hospital is dealing with patients on isolation and keeping all of the staff and other patients safe,” one epidemiologist said, noting that the hospital typically deals with illnesses such as the flu and whooping cough. “That’s the regular business that we do, with masks and gowns and hand washing and negative pressure rooms when indicated.”

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.

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