put on ventilators. so i think it s important to understand that. and it s also important to different shade the fact that some differentiate the fact that some people that are hospitalized for appendicitis9 or a broken bone, they incidentally test positive. that s not a true hospitalization. here in new york, our governor laid out a breakdown of the hospitalizations with covid, and nearly half of them were not primary covid hospitalizations, they just happened to test positive for covid. so the fact that it s so con today schoolhouse and, you know, we have children that have, obviously, smaller airways, their trachea, their lungs are not as fully developed, and we see omicron has a dread election to this predilection to this in younger kids. it can be a little bit more serious whereas it s not so serious in adults. we need to take all these factors into consideration and
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is proposing to add certain rare respiratory cancers to a list of service-connected disabilities because of environmental exposure to particulate matter. The VA
A team of surgeons in New York successfully transplanted a human trachea into a critically ill patient. One year later, that patient is surviving and thriving.
learning lau to eat again, to walk again, with tubes through their trachea, in their neck. a lot of them will survive. most of them will survive. but survival isn t just popping out of bed and going home. i had a patient the other day, i called his spouse, in a church praying for his recovery. she was in tears begging to get him home by christmas. the reality of that in just three weeks is pretty low. this person is going to have a very long recovery. even when we see numbers going down in other states, michigan keeps surging. to what do you contribute or think contributes to what s happening in michigan, what we have seen so consistently there? well, all i can say is what s happening in our system is 98 i think 98% of the people in the
president will transfer temporarily power to vice president kamala harris today as he undergoes a colonoscopy where he ll be under anesthesia. the president is at walter reed medical center right now for his annual physical, his first since taking office. joining me is cnn s chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta for more. talk me through what it means that the president is getting a colonoscopy. so, this is a procedure, a screening procedure to try and determine if someone is developing any kind of polyps or anything worrisome for colon cancer. it s recommended for really anyone over the age of 45 at periodic intervals. so when you had this procedure, most typically, you re sedated with a medication like propofol or something. that doesn t mean your breathing is taken over or a breathing tube is placed into your trachea. it s a sedation to make the procedure more comfortable. typically takes less than about