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An antiviral treatment for Covid-19 approved last December, known as Paxlovid, is available for some who have contracted the virus.

An antiviral treatment for Covid-19 approved last December, known as Paxlovid, is available for some who have contracted the virus.

St. Peter’s Health Cancer Care on Wednesday welcomed oncologist Dr. Elizabeth Bigger to the hospital, filling a full-time position that has been vacant since late 2020.

Together Employees, which consists of more than 200 employees, said the vaccine mandate violated their “sincerely held religious beliefs or places them in significant physical or mental danger.”

Dr. Elizabeth Bigger has been named the new oncologist and hematologist at St. Peter’s Health, medical center officials said Monday, adding that she will begin seeing patients in late February.

“Everybody is hard-up for concentrators. We have never run into this kind of shortage. We’ve been sending people home with these oxygen concentrators in record numbers and it’s stressed our supply.”

Citing shortages of at-home oxygen concentrators due to increased demand amid the COVID-19 surge and national supply chain disruptions, St. Peter’s Health on Tuesday asked people who no longer need

St. Peter’s Health is asking community members who have no longer needed, rented oxygen concentrators from St. Peter’s Home Oxygen to return the devices.

St. Peter’s Health is asking community members who have no longer needed, rented oxygen concentrators from St. Peter’s Home Oxygen to return the devices.

St. Peter’s Health is asking community members who have no longer needed, rented oxygen concentrators from St. Peter’s Home Oxygen to return the devices.