Sarah Koerber, a nurse in the intensive care unit at Lafayette General Medical Center, has seen her parents three times since mid-March. She hugged them once. She told them last week to stay at the cabin in West Virginia, where they had been on vacation for a month because returning …
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In the four months between the NHL halting its season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the resumption of the campaign this week, the world changed in no uncertain terms. The pandemic imposed a new reality on us, and the economic struggle combined with increased global awareness of how the …
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“The gun is broken,” he said, walking away frustrated that each shot landed differently. After giving him a few minutes to put his thoughts in order, we discussed what happened. I told him that the weapon is new and we still don’t know how it behaves. It shouldn’t surprise us …
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Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested on Wednesday that Americans should consider wearing glasses or a face shield to prevent the spread or capture of COVID-19. “If you have glasses or an eye shield, you should wear it,” the nation’s leading infectious disease expert told ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer …
Read More »Medical chief asks for help dealing with ignorance and misinformation being spread about COVID-19
An internal note sent to doctors by Our Lady of Lourdes medical director has been shared over and over again on Acadiana’s Facebook pages. It is addressed to doctors and requests their help. “We all went to medicine for a sense of the common good, to heal the sick and …
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