Alan Lee Serbousek, 81, passed away Jan. 31, 2021 at home with loved ones after a courageous 18-year battle with prostate cancer.
There will no services at this time. Al has donated his body to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. By visiting Goettschonline.com you may share your thoughts, memories, and condolences with his family.
Alan was born Nov. 23, 1939, the son of Leonard and June (Huffman) Serbousek.
He worked at Rockwell for 38 years, making many lifelong friends. Continuing those friendships after retiring, meeting at the Starlite on Fridays for hamburgers was a special time. His friends were important to him, from his coffee crew, who loved arguing sports and politics, to all their special couples and old friends who have remained so close.
U-I Hospitals quickly go through public vaccine supply
Suresh Gunasekaran (file photo)
Iowa’s largest hospital used its entire week’s allotment of COVID-19 vaccines in a single day.
Wednesday was the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics’ first day of inoculating people over 65. Hospital CEO Suresh Gunasekaran says the quick rollout of 1,000 doses shows the Iowa City medical center is ready to scale up as vaccine supplies increase.
“Soon as we get the doses, we have the capability in this community to get that in people’s arms within a day or two,” Gunasekaran says. “Even if the number is 1,000 or 2,000 or 3,000, we really feel like we could do that in a single day.”
In the midst of confusion and frustration over the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine across the country, people like 77-year-old Ricarda Patterson managed to get their hands on a dose at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics first vaccine clinic Wednesday. I feel good, she told the Press-Citizen minutes after her shot. The needles were so big.
Hospital officials converted the UI Health Support Services Building, located at 3285 Ridgeway Drive in Coralville, into a vaccine clinic that opened at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. By the end of the day, a total of 1,004 doses had been administered.
Those being vaccinated Wednesday were part of the state s 1B phase, which includes people 65 and older and essential workers, including firefighters, child welfare workers and educators.
By Carrie Campbell, for The Gazette
As health care providers were finding some medicines ineffective in treating COVID-19, they turned to a method long used in treating viruses: convalescent plasma.
“In the early days of the pandemic, blood providers everywhere in the U.S. were collecting plasma from people who had a COVID-19 infection and recovered because the plasma actually contains antibodies to COVID itself,” said Kirby Winn, spokesperson for the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center.
Plasma is the liquid portion of your blood that contains antibodies that fight off infections.
Donating plasma is different from donating blood. When you donate whole blood, it goes directly into a collection bag. When you donate plasma, the blood that’s drawn from your arm goes into a machine that separates the different parts of your blood. The plasma is collected and the unused parts, including your red blood cells, are put back in your vein.
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