After years of not taking care of herself, following her son s death to a drunken driver, a St. Louis woman went into stage 5 kidney failure, and her best friend decided to donate.
Missouri reports 2,479 new COVID-19 cases, 117 deaths stltoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stltoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
ST. LOUIS â Kate Miller, a nurse at SSM Health St. Maryâs Hospital, spent 12 years in intensive care units, and sheâs trained for crises with the U.S. Army Nurses Corps.
âBut the COVID-19 pandemic is unlike anything I had ever seen before,â Miller said Friday during a briefing by the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force.
On her first day caring for COVID-19 patients, Miller pushed together the beds of a dying couple so they could hold hands one last time. A few weeks ago, a patient who had been talking to her daughter one night earlier was at deathâs door by the morning. Miller held the patientâs hand while her daughter said goodbye from an iPad. The woman died that afternoon, with Miller still at her side.
Third allergic reaction to COVID-19 vaccine reported in Alaska By Audrey McNamara COVID vaccine rollout in full swing
A third health care worker in Alaska has suffered an allergic reaction to Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine. Severe allergic reactions can occur with any vaccine, but are extremely rare.
The employee, one of almost 300 to receive the vaccine Friday at Foundation Health Partners Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, said in a statement shared by the hospital that her experience should not deter others from getting vaccinated. Anaphylaxis is a rare but expected potential side effect that is treatable and does not have long term health implications like COVID, said the employee, who wishes to remain anonymous, in the statement. I would get the vaccine and recommend it to anyone, despite my reaction, to help our country get immunized which is needed for the health of all Americans, for the economy, get families hugging again, for getting children back to sc
Vaccinations are relief, but virus still spreading at dangerous rate: Unlike anything I have ever seen stltoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stltoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.