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Hospital machine touted as ‘last best option’ to treat COVID-19 patients
KOMO News | by Patrick Quinn, KOMO News Reporter | May 18, 2020 Until there is a cure or vaccine, hospitals could continue to struggle to treat the most critical COVID-19 patients, but doctors at…
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Study: Pandemic halts, delays 28 million elective surgeries
UW Medicine | Newsroom | May 19, 2020 The repercussions from COVID-19 are being felt across all segments of society, and now thousands of surgeons worldwide have assessed the impact to canceled surgeries. The CovidSurg…
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I’m a surgeon in Seattle. A bleeding trauma patient amid the coronavirus pandemic was my nightmare
KUOW/NPR | by Kate Walters | April 21, 2020 Voices of the pandemic features people in the Seattle area who are on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak. Dr. Amer Nassar is a general surgery…
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