BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Dr. Michael Saag spends most of his time treating patients who are fighting for their lives and working with colleagues who are overwhelmed and exhausted by the relentless battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. But he enters a different world when he walks out the door of …
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Image copyright Sheerin Khosrowshahi-Miandoab Screenshot The first time Babak was able to speak to his daughter Sheerin was after 30 days in the hospital. Babak Khosrowshahi was brought to the hospital with coronavirus at 4am on March 22, a day that many people in the UK had spent on FaceTime …
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Party like there’s no pandemic: Hundreds of revelers without a mask fill the streets of New York with plastic cups and there’s no social distance until 4 in the morning, and the cops can’t do anything. Hundreds of people filled the streets of Queens on Friday night to celebrate Those …
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The Blue Jays initially received a waiver for summer training in Toronto, provided they agreed that all players remain in a “modified cohort quarantine” at the Rogers Center and an adjoining hotel. The Major League Baseball season will begin on July 23. The Canadian government determined that “the cross-border travel …
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(AP) – A rising tide of new cases of coronavirus is flooding emergency rooms in parts of the United States, with some patients rushed to the halls and nurses working additional shifts to keep up with the surge. Patients struggling to breathe are being placed on ventilators in emergency rooms …
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