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PEORIA LEADS THE STATE IN COVID VACCINATIONS: As of March 4, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health, 84 percent of county residents 65 or older had received a first dose, two times the rate for Chicago and Cook County.
On Feb. 24, Gov. J.B. Pritzker said that if Peoria County were a state, it would be No. 2 in the nation for total doses administered per 100,000 residents. Surprised? So was Monica Hendrickson, public health administrator at the Peoria City/County Health Department.
Most Illinois opioid-overdose deaths occur in homes, hotels, abandoned properties
‘If we really want to save peoples’ lives, we can’t wait until they get to the hospital’
Researchers analyzed 2,833 opioid-involved overdose deaths in Illinois.
More than 75% of people in Illinois who die from an opioid overdose do so before emergency personnel can make it to the overdose scene, a new Northwestern Medicine study found. These deaths occur in peoples’ homes, hotels, public spaces or abandoned properties.
“If we really want to save peoples’ lives, we can’t wait until Emergency Medical Services arrive at the overdose scene,” said corresponding author Joe Feinglass, research professor of medicine and preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Exposing people to a potentially fatal disease could hasten understanding of COVID-19 and development of new vaccines and treatments. But the risks of such studies raise serious ethical questions.
2 more women allege TikTok Doc forced his body against them from behind while at OHSU
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
“Once Jason Campbell became popular through social media, leaders at OHSU seemed protective of him,” one of the nurses said in her declaration.
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Two more women claim former OHSU Dr. Jason Campbell came up from behind them and forced his body against theirs at work, similar to the conduct a social worker has alleged in a federal lawsuit.
A third woman said Campbell followed her around during his rotation in her unit in 2019, asking her for free hugs.
The three nurses paint a disturbing picture of Campbell, an anesthesiology resident who gained national attention as the so-called TikTok Doc for the viral videos he posted on social media of him dancing in his hospital scrubs.