Dr. Rebecca Martin is a pulmonologist at Baxter Regional Medical Center. She wanted to volunteer in New York City because they were in need at the beginning of the pandemic. So she got permission from Baxter CEO, Ron Peterson.
“She called me, and she told me that she felt that she was being called to go there to help. That she’d been trained as a pulmonologist and that’s what physicians are supposed to do was help, said Peterson.
She flew to NYC for a few weeks to lend a helping hand at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center that was the hardest hit by COVID-19 in Brooklyn.
For a wide range of reasons, 2020 is a year that we won’t soon forget from the heroism on the front lines of medicine, powerful demonstrations surrounding racial equality, and the change to our day-to-day lives and our perspectives.
It was a monumental year in so many ways for St. George’s University School of Medicine, its faculty, staff, and students. SGU made history when students and graduates secured 1,124 residency positions across the US and Canada in 2020 a 95 percent residency placement rate for eligible 2020 US graduates who applied for US residencies and a
record for the University. Over the summer, approximately 450 of those grads began their residencies in New York-New Jersey area hospitals, some of the hardest-hit hospitals in the nation during the early days of the COVID pandemic.
America suffers deadliest week as Covid deaths, cases and hospitalizations all hit record highs after Thanksgiving
Updated: 11 Dec 2020, 12:52
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THE US has suffered its deadliest week since the Covid outbreak began with deaths, cases and hospitalizations all hitting record highs in the wake of the Thanksgiving getaway.
Deaths across the country rose by 44 per cent compared to the previous week.
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Medical staff at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, battle to save the life of a Covid patientCredit: Getty Images - Getty
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New records were set in all of the three main metrics which measure the severity of the pandemic, according to the Covid Tracking Project.
America suffers deadliest week as Covid deaths, cases and hospitalizations all hit record highs after Thanksgiving
Updated: Dec 11 2020, 7:48 ET
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THE US has suffered its deadliest week since the Covid outbreak began with deaths, cases and hospitalizations all hitting record highs in the wake of the Thanksgiving getaway.
Deaths across the country rose by 44 per cent compared to the previous week.
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Medical staff at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, battle to save the life of a Covid patientCredit: Getty Images - Getty
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New records were set in all of the three main metrics which measure the severity of the pandemic, according to the Covid Tracking Project.