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12 Tanker Crew Test Positive, 2 in ICU!

Maritime bulletin reports of COVID positive crew aboard chemical tanker.

Crew test positive

Tanker FMT BERGAMA arrived at Port-la-Nouvelle from Terneuzen, Netherlands, in the evening May 6, was berthed on May 8.

Prior to arrival, Master reported COVID-like symptoms among crew. They have been tested while the ship was at anchor, 12 were found to be test positive, 4 had to be taken to hospital, 2 of them put in ICU.

  • Same unanswered question – were the crew members vaccinated before the voyage?
  • Such...

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Coronavirus Situation Worsening, Says Hospital Executive

  • Number of patients in ICU same as at the time of peak of second wave
  • ICUs to get filled with covid cases on the rise
  • France’s ICUs with over 4000 patients-close to a 4 month high

The coronavirus situation is worsening in the greater Paris region where hospitals are under immense strain, reports Reuters.

Precautions to be taken

The director-general of the AP-HP Paris hospitals organization, Martin Hirsch told RTL radio there were two options to contain the disease – a local weekend lockdown,...

https://mfame.guru/coronavirus-situation-worsening-says-hospital-executive/

How ICUs & Ventilators Developed To Save Us

In a time before antibiotics, and the ever-present risk of bacterial infection killing anyone going under the knife

With the Coronavirus pandemic raging all over the world affecting more than 12 million people, Intensive Care Units or ICUs are suddenly in focus. However, very few of us actually know the story behind this invention.

BBC Future’s Science and Space Journalist and the author of Blood and Guts, A History of Surgery, Richard Hollingham tries to decipher that in his latest article. Let’s take a look
A Gifted & Devoted Surgeon’s Invention

Before the 1930s, many of those undergoing the most complicated...

https://mfame.guru/how-icus-ventilators-developed-to-save-us/

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