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What Lessons Have We Learned from the First COVID Surges? Jim Wright & Darrell Owens

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Lucky, Jim and many others like him were willing to come on to our podcast those first several months of the pandemic and share their experiences and lessons learned caring for COVID positive patients and their family members. . We had a very big second surge here in November, where the first surge was really nursing home population.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits.

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