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ICU nurse Jess Schreiber
âBut in the end, itâs like weâre fighting an enemy that we canât win against, and thatâs what we see on a daily basis,â said Schreiber, a critical care nurse at the hospital.
During her 12-hour shift, Schreiber typically cares for two or three patients at one time, her days filled with multiple emergent procedures . and âa lot of times death.â
And with many of those patients spending long periods of time in the hospital, those treating them tend to form bonds with them and their families â making the losses that much harder to deal with.
William H. âBillâ Horn â MSgt â US Air Force (retired)
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Bill Horn on 12/22/20, with his family by his side, at the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Mountain Home.
Bill was born in Hawkins County, TN 1/22/1934.
He is preceded in death by; his father, William R. Horn; his mother, Lorena G. Horn, and two brothers; James V. Horn and William Hanzy âHankâ Horn. He is also preceded in death by; his first wife and mother of his children, Mary Elizabeth Donner Horn; and his second wife, Doris Mae Zeiger Horn.
If youâve recovered from COVID-19, you may be able to help researchers at East Tennessee State University learn more about the virus.
Dr. Jonathan Moorman of ETSU was recently awarded a $330,000 Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Merit Review Award by the Department of Veterans Affairs to study patientsâ immune responses to COVID-19.
His study, âCharacterizing trained immune responses to COVID-19,â was one of 18 studies funded among a pool of 104 applications received from Veterans Affairs Medical Centers across the country. His study will be the second major study to use a biorepository that was established by ETSU and the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center.