Hospitals are seeing an increase in patients suffering from respiratory illnesses, including the flu, COVID-19, and the Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, according to city, county, and state officials.
Those infections come amid holiday gatherings and travel. Health experts in the Chicago area said the illnesses are trending in the wrong direction.
COVID-19 and RSV are relatively low in Chicago and Cook County, but it’s the flu that’s prompting health officials to sound the alarm…