Hackensack Meridian test may help NJ fight COVID variants dailyrecord.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyrecord.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Epidemics of the Past: Bubonic Plague
Bubonic Plague
Ashes ? ashes,
We all fall down.
A familiar nursery rhyme that children have recited as a harmless play song for generations ironically refers to one of Europe s most devastating diseases. The bubonic plague, better known as the ?The Black Death,? has existed for thousands of years. The first recorded case of the plague was in China in 224 B.C.E. But the most significant outbreak was in Europe in the mid-fourteenth century. Over a five-year period from 1347 to 1352, 25 million people died. One-third to one-half of the European population was wiped out!
The first symptoms of bubonic plague appeared within days after infection: fever, headache, and a general feeling of weakness, followed by aches in the upper leg and groin, a white tongue, rapid pulse, slurred speech, confusion, and fatigue. By the third day, a painful swelling of the lymph glands in the neck, armpits, and groin occurred, and these enlarged areas were called ?bu
COVID variants: NJ flying blind on spread with little lab capacity njherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from njherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
But on April seventh, Omidvari went from doctor to COVID-19 patient. He was so sick, he drove himself to his own emergency room. It s almost like drowning. Obviously you re not underwater, but you feel like you cannot get enough oxygen to your tissue, said Omidvari.
Omidvari s colleagues put him on a ventilator and watched as his condition went from bad to worse. They were like kind of getting, from what my wife says, getting her prepared that I might not make it, said Omidvari.
That s when doctors made the call to try convalescent plasma therapy. Scientists start with blood from recovered COVID-19 patients.
Best Life: Convalescent plasma therapy fights COVID-19
Best Life: COVID-19 antibodies saving lives By Ivanhoe Broadcast News | December 16, 2020 at 6:42 AM CST - Updated December 16 at 6:29 PM
HACKENSACK, N.J. (Ivanhoe Newswire)â Itâs a promising treatment for desperately ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Earlier this fall, the FDA granted emergency use authorization for a treatment known as convalescent plasma therapy. Blood donated by people whoâve recovered from COVID-19 is used in patients who are ill and not responding to other treatments.
Pulmonologist Karan Omidvari has been on the COVID-19 frontlines since March.
âI was actually what we call the screener. I was the guy who would go in and see them and see which ones needed to come to the intensive care unit,â described Karan Omidvari, MD, a pulmonologist at Hackensack University Medical Center.