Early UFC fighter Paul Varelans dies at 51 due to COVID-19
Paul Varelans, a well-known name from the UFC s early days, died Saturday after a battle with COVID-19, his live-in girlfriend, Kim Watson, confirmed to ESPN on Monday. He was 51 years old.
Varelans was admitted in December to Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta with coronavirus and was subsequently put into a medically induced coma, Watson said. On Friday, family and friends were told Varelans didn t have much time left. News of Varelans death circulated Saturday on Facebook. After a solid month of fighting off COVID while in a coma on various machinery fighting off multiple infections Paul s body finally grew exhausted, close friend Shane Viens wrote on Facebook. Anyone that truly knew Paulie knew he was all heart. A fighter to his core he was not one to give up and he [gave] us his all. He left us [Saturday] morning. I was able to tell him I loved him one last time on speaker phone.
January 08, 2021
Sending home select patients who have had elective, minimalist TAVI with no complications the same day as their procedure is safe and feasible, according to an analysis of one high-volume center’s protocol, which was put in place when COVID-19 was taking hold.
“When the pandemic hit, amidst the concern and planning of what to do, our heart team started a conversation almost immediately about how can we brainstorm ways to move forward through the pandemic and not restrict access to care for our patients specifically with aortic stenosis,” senior author Chandan M. Devireddy MD, MBA (Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta, GA), told TCTMD.
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ATLANTA – Emory Healthcare celebrated the New Year with some special deliveries on the first day of 2021.
At Emory University Hospital Midtown, the first baby born on Jan. 1 arrived at 12:06 a.m. Baby boy Jonah weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces. He was due on New Year’s Eve, but waited an extra day to arrive. Mom Ariona and Dad Felton say Jonah’s arrival is a fresh start for their family in 2021, and they are excited to have the first delivery on a special holiday.
Less than five hours later, Emory Decatur Hospital welcomed its first New Year’s Day baby. The baby arrived at 4:54 a.m.