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ICU medical director Dr. James Samuel Pope goes about his day at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. Sick patients fill 15 out of 16 rooms at one of the ICU wards and most of them are suffering from Covid-19. 'They're all… unvaccinated,' says the doctor, who fears not all his patients will make it back home.
Protesters gather at an Iraqi hospital where at least 52 people have died and several others wounded in a massive fire that engulfed a coronavirus isolation ward. The fire broke out at the Al-Hussein hospital in the southern city of Nasiriyah late Monday.
Colombian doctor Norberto Medina has seen patients die and nursed others back to health. He contracted the virus himself, stared death in the face in intensive care, and donated blood plasma containing antibodies with which to treat others afflicted. "Triumph" finally came with the vaccine, he says, and has gone back to work to continue helping others recover.
In the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the US, many independent doctors offices say they've been left in the dark. According to Business Insider, they say they don't have access to COVID-19 vaccines. What's more, they've heard little from the federal or state governments about if or when they might receive doses. Independent primary care providers have been totally left out of distribution channels and have no line of sight for when they might receive a vaccine supply. Dr. Emily Maxson Chief Medical Officer, Aledade Sources say hospitals, large retail pharmacies, and federally-qualified health centers are the main distributors of the vaccine. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says nearly 9 million individuals in the US have been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. That's 11 million people less than the Trump administration's estimate of 20 million vaccinated Americans by the end of 2020.
Australian doctor Sean Parsons began inventing virus detection tools as a "hobby", but now his medical technology firm is producing the first non-prescription home Covid-19 tests cleared by US regulators. Parsons speaks with AFP as factory workers at Ellume's Brisbane base swiftly assemble sleek grey kits roughly the size and shape of home pregnancy tests. At the time, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Washington had just approved Ellume's kits for emergency use, and the company was manufacturing 16,000 tests a day. It is now rapidly scaling up production, aiming to hit one million units a day by mid-year.
Plus de 2.000 personnes ont participé dimanche à une marche blanche pour exprimer leur "solidarité" aux victimes de l'incendie meurtrier qui a dévasté le 14 février trois immeubles à Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, près de Perpignan, tuant huit personnes.
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