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Condell Medical Center emergency room doctor Halleh Akbarnia was part of a team of doctors who helped save Michael Catania of Green Oaks early in the pandemic. Akbarnia recently gave Catania his second COVID-19 vaccine. (Advocate Aurora Health)
LIBERTYVILLE, IL Nearly a year after her emotional Facebook post about fighting to keep a patient alive went viral, getting shared nearly 200,000 times, an Advocate Condell Medical Center doctor gave that same patient his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dr. Halleh Akbarnia met Michael Catania of Green Oaks when he was admitted to the emergency room at Advocate Condell Center at the start of the pandemic last March. She visited him every day in the hospital s COVID-19 intensive care unit. As he fought for his life, Catania had to be intubated and resuscitated several times.
Two killed when car slams into guardrail near Lindenhurst
Updated 3/7/2021 10:22 AM
Two 23-year-old men were killed Saturday night when a speeding vehicle went off the roadway and crashed into a guardrail near Lindenhurst, authorities said.
Lake County Sheriff s police said deputies called to the scene along Stearns School Road east of Route 45 at 9:30 p.m. arrived to find a 2009 Audi TTS with what was described as extreme damage.
An investigation determined that a 23-year-old Waukegan man was driving the car westbound on Stearns at a high speed when he lost control of the vehicle and it hit a guardrail on the north side of the road, authorities said.
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A doctor at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville administered the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine for a patient she treated nearly a year ago, officials said March 4.