Lake Forest Academy teen connects higher COVID-19 mortality rates for those with the sickle cell trait: ‘My true passion is using my love of numbers to help other people around the world’

Joe Hulsizer, 17, a Lake Forest Academy student holds a research project on his laptop that he worked on with help from Jianfeng Xu, vice president and director of the program for personalized cancer care at NorthShore University Health System Research Institute in Evanston, on Aug. 9, 2021. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)