But on April seventh, Omidvari went from doctor to COVID-19 patient. He was so sick, he drove himself to his own emergency room. It s almost like drowning. Obviously you re not underwater, but you feel like you cannot get enough oxygen to your tissue, said Omidvari.
Omidvari s colleagues put him on a ventilator and watched as his condition went from bad to worse. They were like kind of getting, from what my wife says, getting her prepared that I might not make it, said Omidvari.
That s when doctors made the call to try convalescent plasma therapy. Scientists start with blood from recovered COVID-19 patients.
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Six vaccine mega sites are expected to open across New Jersey in early January, Gov. Phil Murphy announced during Friday s COVID-19 briefing.
The sites will be able to inoculate frontline healthcare workers, and will accommodate essential workers before moving to adults over the age of 65 and those with high-risk medical conditions.
The news comes three days after a nurse at University Hospital in Newark became the first New Jersey resident to receive Pfizer s vaccine.
Since then, healthcare heroes have been vaccinated at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Atlantic Health in Morristown Medical Center and Hackensack University Medical Center.
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Best Life: Convalescent plasma therapy fights COVID-19
Best Life: COVID-19 antibodies saving lives By Ivanhoe Broadcast News | December 16, 2020 at 6:42 AM CST - Updated December 16 at 6:29 PM
HACKENSACK, N.J. (Ivanhoe Newswire)â Itâs a promising treatment for desperately ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Earlier this fall, the FDA granted emergency use authorization for a treatment known as convalescent plasma therapy. Blood donated by people whoâve recovered from COVID-19 is used in patients who are ill and not responding to other treatments.
Pulmonologist Karan Omidvari has been on the COVID-19 frontlines since March.
âI was actually what we call the screener. I was the guy who would go in and see them and see which ones needed to come to the intensive care unit,â described Karan Omidvari, MD, a pulmonologist at Hackensack University Medical Center.
The slow death of the 24-hour diner: How the pandemic may spell the end of a Jersey icon
Updated Dec 14, 2020;
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Nothing says “Jersey” like a diner, especially a 24-hour one, with its blazing neon sign a welcoming beacon in the night.
Prior to mid-March, when the coronavirus forced lockdowns around the country, there were dozens of 24-hour diners in New Jersey, the Diner Capital of the World.
Now there are just a scant few, including the Stateline Diner in Mahwah, the Coach House Diner in Hackensack and the Chit Chat Diner, also in Hackensack.
The owners of the former 24-hour diners are not hopeful they’ll go back to 24/7 when things return to “normal.”