A Southern California man who needed a COVID-19 plasma donation has died amid his wife's desperate fight to save her husband.Chloe Nguyen's husband, 32-year-old Ted Le, was in critical condition with COVID-19 and on a ventilator for nearly four weeks at Pomona Valley Hospital.Le died on Friday.Doctors told Nguyen that plasma donated from someone who…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A protest of more than 200 demonstrators broke out in Southern California on Friday against the state’s stay-at-home-orders in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak, according to reports.The action in Huntington Beach, south of Los Angeles, was similar to others staged…
Across California, thousands of health care workers have tested positive for the deadly coronavirus. Yet, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that transmission is relatively rare when a doctor, nurse or other worker has brief contact with a patient and is wearing appropriate protective gear. As of April…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A nursing home in California is now under investigation after at least 13 people died from coronavirus there and dozens were sickened.The Alameda County District Attorney's Office said Wednesday it opened a probe into the Gateway Rehabilitation and Care Center in Hayward, Calif.,…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Several Southern California nurses were suspended after they refused to enter coronavirus patient's rooms without N95 respirator masks, the National Nurses Union said this week.Mike Gulick, who is one of the suspended nurses, told the Associated Press he’s been extremely careful…
Complaints about hospital food are certainly not new, and Jell-O and fruit juice are often the butt of related jokes. But the Trump administration has recently upped the ante. It is urging the public to report hospitals and nursing homes that serve sugary drinks, nutrition shakes, or meals that it says don’t meet dietary guidelines
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