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Members of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force said that as hospitals in the St. Louis region near their capacity to treat coronavirus patients, doctors, nurses and other hospital staff are overworked and afraid.
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Washington University researchers are launching an international study to test whether the drug chloroquine can prevent coronavirus infection.Chloroquine…
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When the coronavirus began spreading in Missouri, Jasmine Whitfield remembers how scared her mother was. Cynthia Whitfield, 58, was a certified medication…
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At the St. Louis hospital where Emma Crocker works as a registered nurse, only employees working in areas with confirmed COVID-19 patients, like the…
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Cyrus Ghaznavi is supposed to be studying for his final exams — but like other students, he’s having trouble focusing in the midst of a global pandemic.…
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The Missouri State Board of Nursing has approved expanding five of the state’s nursing programs, adding 250 slots for future students.State officials say…
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On nurse Jordan McNab’s first day at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis in 2017, a patient stopped breathing. She had to immediately start giving him…
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Two years ago, registered nurse Amanda Sommer decided she had had enough. She was working as a bedside nurse in a large St. Louis hospital, floating among…
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Washington University has announced it will begin hiring apprentices this fall to work as medical assistants in clinics in the St. Louis…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 19, 2009 - Given their proximity to people with illnesses, health-care workers are often the…