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About 1,060 ventilator products are recalled from two companies due to risk of serious injury or death. No injuries or deaths have been reported.

We had too many patients. [dr. ng gong] every hour or so, were having an emergency called for respiratory distress. there was just so much fear, and there was so much uncertainty at the very beginning, in march. and we had no idea what was coming. within a few days, thats when the wave started. one after another after another after another. [man] theyre overrun with patients. emss last night broke a record, we handled 65 hundred calls. [mola] its so dire, emts have been told to stop transporting...

To try to clean rooms and rapidly turn them around, working with the infectious disease docs to see what they need to do to disinfect, how to make it safe. we have engineering guys trying to figure out how to re-engineer rooms. the ventilator is here now. [dr. smith] the ventilators are machines that we put patients on to breathe for them when they cant breathe for themselves. we had 30 icu beds when covid started. by mid-april, we had 200 patients at elmhurst on a ventilator. [mola] many young ...

[dr. smith] the ventilators are machines that we put patients on to breathe for them when they cant breathe for themselves. we had 30 icu beds when covid started. by mid-april, we had 200 patients at elmhurst on a ventilator. [mola] many young people are ignoring pleas to stay home, including spring breakers in florida. [woman] we do care about our health, it is, like, a big concern. but my thing is, is one day were gonna die, so might as well go out with a bang. [dr. smith] what im hearing on t...

Communications infrastructure, planning for how you keep schools and the education system open for as long as humanly possible was equally important to planning for ppe and ventilator capacity and vaccination systems and infrastructure. so getting that bit right in planning and exercising, its kind of a whole society type of thing. we need to think on that. most plans wont survive a pandemic intact, but not being prepared can mean delays, disorder, potentially deaths. tomorrow, the covid inquiry...

“To tell you frankly, I have no idea of this … I am unaware of this, I certainly did not issue such instructions”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on ATV

Therapeutic nanocarriers engineered from adult skin cells can curb inflammation and tissue injury in damaged mouse lungs, new research shows, hinting at the promise of a treatment for lungs severely injured by infection or trauma.

Issues. hes had knee problems. he had this surgery a couple years ago. how are you looking at this? >> good morning. as was just laid out, in 2021, the hope pope had a left removal of his colon and large intestines. its resulted in a herb ya after having a major surgical procedure. its likely where the hernia occurred. whats remaining of the popes intense tin, part of that protruded out of his ab nominal wall and caused a lot of pain. in terms of what to expect, the pope did have part of his lun...

To have to do a big incision. hopefully use cameras to remove the impacted part. given the popes pulmonary history, its something to look out for. hopefully they take him off the ventilator right after the surgery and hes able to recover quickly, but hes going to require three to five days in the hospital for monotorting. >> thats good information to know. we certainly hope everything goes smoothly. dr. gupta is going to be back with us in a few minutes. thank you so much. we have more breakin...

Wanda Filer, MD, MBA, FAAFP, provides an overview of the potential outcomes for patients of all ages with RSV.