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COVID-19: Oxygen shortage costs 14 live in Nepal ANI 13 May 2021, 16:37 GMT+10 Kathmandu [Nepal], May 13 (ANI): A total of 14 COVID-19 patients, undergoing treatment at two different hospitals in Nepal s Lumbini province, died after the hospitals ran out of medical oxygen on Wednesday afternoon. Eleven patients died in Corona Special Hospital in Butwal, while three passed away in Bhairahawa-based Bhim Hospital of Rupandehi district, Kathmandu Post reported. One of the health workers at the Bhim Hospital told the Post, that Covid-19 patients, who lost their lives on Wednesday, were in need of high flow oxygen supplement. But they did not receive high flow oxygen on time. We had to see patients dying in their beds helpless and hear their families grief-stricken wails. This news comes as several hospitals in and around Kathmandu have started turning down patients following the government s decision to cap the supply of life-saving medical oxygen. ....
STEPHANIE PAPPAS, LIVESCIENCE 21 FEBRUARY 2021 Vampire squid have been lurking in the dark corners of the ocean for 30 million years, a new analysis of a long-lost fossil finds. Vampyroteuthis infernalis) can thrive in deep, oxygen-poor ocean water, unlike many other squid species that require shallower habitat along continental shelves.
Few fossil ancestors of today s vampire squid survive, though, so scientists aren t sure when these elusive cephalopods evolved the ability to live with little oxygen. The new fossil analysis helps to fill a 120-million-year gap in vampire squid evolution, revealing that the ancestors of modern-day vampire squid already lived in the deep oceans during the Oligocene, 23 million to 34 million years ago. ....