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After a year of loss, patients ring in 2021 from Houston … – Thomson Reuters Foundation
HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/NEWYEAR-USA (PIX):After a year of loss, patients ring in 2021 from Houston COVID-19 ward
By Callaghan O’Hare and Nathan Layne
HOUSTON, Jan 1 (Reuters) – Shortly after midnight Duc Nguyen sat up in his hospital bed for a video call with his wife. The glow of a television and a street lamp outside his window provided the only light as a nasal cannula delivered oxygen to his lungs.
It was not how the 33-year-old had envisioned welcoming in the new year, but he said he was grateful the United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC) in Houston had a vacant bed so he could be treated for pneumonia…
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