Jack Remington, infectious-disease expert and clinician, dies at 90
The Stanford physician devised a test that saved babies’ lives by showing whether they needed immediate treatment for a parasitic disease called toxoplasmosis. Apr 27 2021
Jack Remington
Jack Remington, MD, professor emeritus of infectious diseases at Stanford Medicine, died April 8 in Menlo Park, California, of complications from an injury he sustained in a fall. He was 90.
An extreme-sports enthusiast with a penchant for mountain climbing, which over the years exacted a physical toll on his body, Remington was a hard-charging patient advocate who put his patients’ needs above all else.
He was also an accomplished scientist who conducted groundbreaking research on
But experts say the number is just a fraction of the virus s real reach in the country.
As Indian officials reported nearly 350,000 new infections on Saturday, a world record, hospitals are unbearably full, oxygen supplies are dangerously low and people are dying in line waiting to see doctors. The sudden surge in recent weeks has cast doubt on India s official Covid-19 death toll of nearly 200,000. Reports from cremation grounds, above, suggest a far greater number.
India s crisis is wreaking havoc on the global vaccination effort, especially in Africa, after the government in Delhi restricted exports of doses to deal with its own outbreak. Now the U.S. is under pressure to release vaccine supplies that Indian vaccine makers say they need to expand production.
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Students returned in person to Montclaire Elementary School this month. The transition required emotional thoughtfulness for the kids – and for their parents, too.
School closures a year ago forced families to develop new routines and ways of living.
Some were able to create constructive routines and learning environments for their children, balancing the demands of remote working and family commitments with ease. Others, with the passage of time and despite the best of intentions, have fallen into less-than-ideal home-schooling habits, needing to cajole bored children into engaging in their Zoom classes or coerce them to do their homework.