The operation is believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S. The patient, a woman in her 20s, had been healthy, but the coronavirus devastated her lungs.An extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, room, where coronavirus patients struggling to breathe are treated, at a Northwestern Medicine facility in Chicago.Credit...Northwestern MedicineJune 11, 2020Updated 8:23…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.The father of a man captured on video beating up a Detroit nursing home resident has claimed that his son has a history of mental illness, and that he shouldn't have been in the facility following a coronavirus diagnosis.The shocking video surfaced…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. A shocking video surfacing Thursday showed a 75-year-old Michigan care home patient being beaten in a brutal, bloody attack.Reports of the beating, at the Westwood Nursing Center in Detroit, drew a response from President Trump, who reacted on Twitter.“Is this…
Dr. Jay Cook of Providence Regional Medical Center Everett speaks during a press conference about the first confirmed U.S. case of a virus known as the 2019 novel coronavirus at the state Public Health Laboratories on January 21, 2020 in Shoreline, Washington. The man who was first diagnosed with coronavirus in Snohomish County should not…
When Lawrence Garbuz got sick in February, he thought he just had a cough. But Garbuz had the coronavirus, which left him in a coma and earned him the title of the New York area's "patient zero."In an exclusive interview with Savannah Guthrie that aired Monday on "TODAY," Garbuz spoke about his experience, saying the…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…