COVID-19

Long COVID can impact your phys­i­cal and men­tal health — as well as your day-to-day life. Talk to a Duly provider if you are expe­ri­enc­ing these symptoms.

Mask­ing guide­lines are con­stant­ly evolv­ing as pub­lic health offi­cials learn more infor­ma­tion. Keep­ing up with the chang­ing infor­ma­tion can be over­whelm­ing while try­ing to keep you and your loved ones safe. Find out which masks are the most effec­tive, how to care for them and the lat­est on when wear­ing a mask is rec­om­mend­ed or required.

To bet­ter under­stand the most recent COVID-19 guide­lines in most school dis­tricts, Mia Taormi­na, DO, chair of our Infec­tious Dis­ease Depart­ment, and Don­ald Hoscheit, MD, Gas­troen­terol­o­gist and Chief Med­ical Offi­cer, share insights into the lat­est COVID guide­lines to help par­ents and care­givers pre­pare for the new school year.

Through­out the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, clin­i­cal test­ing has been an impor­tant area of focus. Sift­ing through all the infor­ma­tion avail­able can be quite the task. Learn more about the dif­fer­ent types of tests avail­able to you.

Some peo­ple may expe­ri­ence anx­i­ety that is focused specif­i­cal­ly on ill­ness or the fear of ill­ness as a result of liv­ing dur­ing a pan­dem­ic and flu sea­son. Stacey J. Feuer, PsyD, MLD, pro­vides strate­gies to man­age this type of anxiety.

Home – a place where many of us have been spend­ing our time these last few months. With infec­tions spread­ing, many of us will not attend tra­di­tion­al hol­i­day gath­er­ings or bond with extend­ed fam­i­ly or friends. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, with cas­es ris­ing through­out Illi­nois and the coun­try, it’s cru­cial that we lim­it small gath­er­ings as these are a con­trib­u­tor to the rise in COVID-19 cas­es. While cel­e­brat­ing vir­tu­al­ly or with mem­bers of your own house­hold is an option, it may not cov­er the long days after you’ve logged off with your loved ones. 

Haunt­ed hous­es, ghosts and jack‑o’-lanterns are just a few famil­iar scares asso­ci­at­ed with Hal­loween. In 2020, COVID-19 has added a new lev­el of fear to this hol­i­day. What will the spook­i­est day of the year look like dur­ing a glob­al health pan­dem­ic? Dr. Mali­ni Kumar, a pedi­a­tri­cian with DuPage Med­ical Group, explains how COVID-19 will affect Hal­loween and what you can do to make this annu­al hol­i­day ​‘Spook­tac­u­lar’ giv­en the circumstances. 

Effec­tive inter­per­son­al com­mu­ni­ca­tion is hard. When you add in the chal­lenges and stres­sors of a glob­al pan­dem­ic, it can feel noth­ing short of impos­si­ble. You may find it more dif­fi­cult to respond to stress­ful sit­u­a­tions calm­ly. You may find your­self snap­ping at your part­ner or feel­ing like you just need some time to your­self. You may feel angri­er than nor­mal. Giv­en the unprece­dent­ed and uncer­tain times, that all makes sense. It’s impor­tant to rec­og­nize and val­i­date how you are feel­ing in order to work towards mean­ing­ful change with­in your relationship. 

Car­di­ol­o­gist, Dr. Devin Patel, shares some ways you can stay heart-health con­scious dur­ing the COVID ‑19 pandemic.