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A mother-of-three restaurant worker and a nurse have been identified as the two people to be tragically killed Sunday night when a driver plowed his vehicle into an eatery's outdoor patio. Kristina Folkerts, 30, and Gabe Harvey, an ICU nurse at the nearby Methodist Hospital, were killed when a driver plowed into the outdoor patio of Park Tavern in St. …
Vaccines for cancer caused by some viruses already exist. "Similar to the way an mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 works, an mRNA cancer vaccine trains your immune system to recognize a certain protein on the surface of cancer cells," said Anna Blakney, an assistant professor in the School of Biochemical Engineering at the University of British Columbia in Canada. "Basically, the …
Conditions at Los Angeles County hospitals are worsening by the day, forcing officials to take increasingly desperate measures to prevent the healthcare system from crumbling under a crush of COVID-19 patients. Methodist Hospital of Southern California has taken the grim step of convening a triage team that will “make the difficult, but necessary decisions about allocating limited resources” to critically …
CNN — Inside a Houston hospital partly transformed into a coronavirus specialty unit, one doctor says he expects to reach capacity in the next 14days. “So sooner or later, within the next two weeks, we’re going to be at full house.” Two facilities within the Harris Health System have had to spread their “load” of patients around, the mayor said. …
