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Risley, who has worked as an investigator under Pope, was not one of two candidate recommended by the search committee, but the ethics commission agreed to interview him after Hartzler and another recommended candidate failed to win the support of a majority of members, said state Rep. Maurice West, a Rockford Democrat who sits on the panel.

“When COVID first started, there was a lot of judgment about those who were getting sick,” said Sheehan Fisher, a psychologist and assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Now, he said, as vaccinated people who followed regulations test positive or feel sick, “They fear that others assume that they are not following the regulations.”

Doctors also, however, cautioned that it’s important to balance the need for safety with children’s mental health. Parents should control what they can control within their own homes — such as wake times, bed times, and positive relationships — to help kids through this latest surge, especially as some schools go remote, said Dr. Laura Yahr Nelson, a pediatric psychiatrist with Aurora Children’s Health.

“He’s been able to enjoy himself, but he also enjoys having a project and being productive — working on something that he’s both good at and helps other people,” he said about Eli’s latest project. “One of the nice things about the way the site is designed, and this is not necessarily obvious when you look at it, but the default sort order is always cheapest to most expensive. So, in addition to showing real time availability, it also enables people to find the most affordable, currently available tests.”

“And he actually had this grin on his face where everyone’s, like, that’s really cool, but there’s something else that’s going to happen,” Alex Cohen, the director of broadcasting, told the Tribune. “Something like that you can never expect. But if anybody’s going to pull it off and do it the way that he did, it’d be Michael.”