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Irvine, Calif., Feb. 9, 2021 Monoclonal antibodies are showing promise for improving outcomes for COVID-19 patients, but when a hospital is already beyond capacity, administering them can be a challenge. As hospitalizations soared across California, clinicians with UCI Health created a system for delivering monoclonal antibodies that is keeping hospital beds available for patients with the greatest need. The hospital bed is one of the most valuable resources that we have, which has been stretched thin by the COVID-19 pandemic, said Dr. Daniel S. Chow, an assistant professor in residence in radiological sciences and co-director for the Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine as well as the project s co-principal investigator. Every effort to expand the number of beds available counts, and that includes being proactive about preventing hospitalizations.
COVID-weary Clevelanders share their post-pandemic travel plans for 2021
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
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And go where? Everywhere and anywhere – to Austria and Alaska, Maui and Mont St. Michel.
Stuck at home for the past 10 months, Cleveland travelers have compiled long lists of places they want to visit when the world is safe again. We asked readers to share their travel plans for 2021, and we heard from dozens of would-be wanderers with an overflowing suitcase of pent-up demand.
Their destinations were all over the map – from Antarctica to Albania, Cincinnati to California.
But some themes emerged.
Many readers said their travel plans revolved around visiting family – children and grandchildren, sisters and cousins, who, in some cases, haven’t been seen in nearly a year.
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The Habits We Picked Up After a year in isolation, hobbies turn to habits, and the longer this goes on, the more permanent they become. Lucky Devil Strip Thru (Wesley Lapointe) Updated December 23, 2020 First, it was puzzles. Then it was baking. And then…it got weird. At the start of quarantine, the hobbies we picked up to pass the time were just that: innocent pastimes. But after a year in isolation, hobbies turn to habits, and the longer this goes on, the more permanent they become. Here are four that, in one way or another, have reshaped Portland at large.