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The sister of an emergency room doctor who died by suicide while helping fight the coronavirus pandemic said that before her death, Dr. Lorna Breen had been in an "untenable" situation.Speaking to "TODAY's" Savannah Guthrie, Jennifer Feist said her sister was overcome by a grim combination of events. She contracted the virus, which Feist believed…

Published on Apr 29, 2020Dr. Mario Ramirez, an emergency room physician treating COVID-19 patients, joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss what Dr. Fauci calls "good news" from a coronavirus drug treatment trial, and the outlook for the development of a coronavirus vaccine. Ramirez also served as a pandemic and emerging threats coordinator at the Dept. of…

April 29, 2020 | 7:50am | Updated April 29, 2020 | 10:30am The father of top Manhattan ER doctor Lorna Breen — who committed suicide after working on the front lines of the battle against the coronavirus — said in a new interview that “she put her life on the line to take care of…

CLOSE Hospital staff celebrate as Henry Ford Health Doctor Scott Kaatz leaves the hospital after surviving COVID-19 and neighbors serenade him to the tune of Queen. Detroit Free PressEight days ago, Henry Ford Health doctor Scott Kaatz was on a ventilator, clinging to life.The 62-year-old physician had COVID-19, a virus that had ravaged his lungs,…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Dr. Scott Jensen, a Minnesota family physician and Republican state senator, told "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines for doctors to certify whether a patient has died of coronavirus are a "mess" and predicted that some fatalities initially reported to be COVID-19-related…