Tag: Grim

Long COVID, big bills: grim legacy of even short hospital stays

When COVID-19 patients are discharged from the hospital, most are far from being well—even if their hospital stay was fairly short. That’s among the initial findings of a study that followed Americans hospitalized for COVID-19 during the pandemic’s “third wave”—the fall of 2020 through early 2021. Researchers found that of 253 patients discharged from the

California hospitals prepping for grim COVID-19 choices

California hospitals struggling with a skyrocketing coronavirus surge are trying to prepare for the possibility that they may have to ration care for lack of staff and beds—and hoping they don’t have to make that choice. The state avoided surging cases for months, but now the virus is raging out of control there and across

Grim footage shows patient having 22 white hearing aid filters removed

Stomach-churning footage shows 22 wax-covered white hearing aid filters extracted from deep inside a patient’s ear (and he didn’t know they were there!) Neel Raithatha, an audiologist based in Leicestershire, removed the filters The YouTube sensation admitted that he was in ‘disbelief’ when he saw them Mr Raithatha joked he would never come across such