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‘It’s about human beings.’ This photographer’s goal in documenting COVID-19

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Health Apr 27

Why ventilators are increasingly seen as a ‘final measure’ with COVID-19

Health care providers are concerned that anxious Americans don't understand what it means to go on and then come off a mechanical ventilator, how the machines are being deployed in U.S. hospitals and the necessity of using this information to…

By Grace Birnstengel, Next Avenue

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An ICU nurse on wavering between confidence and fear

After a particularly brutal week caring for COVID-19 patients in New York City, ICU nurse KP Mendoza considered one final task: writing a will. He's only 24, but working in the heart of a global pandemic, it felt as if…

Health Apr 16

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A Brooklyn ICU nurse on why she doesn’t feel like a superhero

Maria Lobifaro is a nurse at a VA hospital in Brooklyn that has been converted to care only for coronavirus patients. Already, more than 30 deaths related to COVID-19 have occurred there. Lobifaro, a member of the largest union for…

Health Sep 08

Doctors fight to bring hospital ICUs into the modern era

Many ICU physicians say that ICUs are woefully — and often dangerously — out of date.

By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT

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