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2021 General News Story
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Province of Piacenza. Italy. 26/03/2020.
Doctor Luigi Cavanna and his assistant Gabriele Cremona are in the rural area of Piacenza during home visits to the patients affected by coronavirus.
Close to Codogno - epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy. Doctor Luigi Cavanna, the head of the oncology ward in Piacenza hospital, and Gabriele Cremona, deputy of the oncology ward, - equipped with all the necessary safety gears and a handheld ultrasound - took upon themselves to visit and treat positive and allegedly positive patients in their houses. “The objective” says doctor Cavanna “is to reduce the duration of the disease and lighten the burden on the ER (emergency room)”. They predict that this initiative could decrease the contagion and the duration of patients’ hospitalization by a week. Dr Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way.
Province of Piacenza. Italy. 31/03/2020.
Doctor Luigi Cavanna and his assistant Gabriele Cremona conduct a home visit to the patient with covid-19, Angela Carlaghi.
Close to Codogno - epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy. Doctor Luigi Cavanna, the head of the oncology ward in Piacenza hospital, and Gabriele Cremona, deputy of the oncology ward, - equipped with all the necessary safety gears and a handheld ultrasound - took upon themselves to visit and treat positive and allegedly positive patients in their houses. “The objective” says doctor Cavanna “is to reduce the duration of the disease and lighten the burden on the ER (emergency room)”. They predict that this initiative could decrease the contagion and the duration of patients’ hospitalization by a week. Dr Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way.- Province of Piacenza. Italy. 26/03/2020.
Doctor Luigi Cavanna and his assistant Gabriele Cremona conduct a home visit to the patient with covid-19, Maggi Stella Sartori, in front of the worried eyes of her son, Giovanni Sartori.
Close to Codogno - epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy. Doctor Luigi Cavanna, the head of the oncology ward in Piacenza hospital, and Gabriele Cremona, deputy of the oncology ward, - equipped with all the necessary safety gears and a handheld ultrasound - took upon themselves to visit and treat positive and allegedly positive patients in their houses. “The objective” says doctor Cavanna “is to reduce the duration of the disease and lighten the burden on the ER (emergency room)”. They predict that this initiative could decrease the contagion and the duration of patients’ hospitalization by a week. Dr Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way. - Province of Piacenza. Italy. 16/04/2020.
Doctor Luigi Cavanna and his assistant Gabriele Cremona conduct a home visit to the patient with covid-19, Mario Biondi.
Close to Codogno - epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy. Doctor Luigi Cavanna, the head of the oncology ward in Piacenza hospital, and Gabriele Cremona, deputy of the oncology ward, - equipped with all the necessary safety gears and a handheld ultrasound - took upon themselves to visit and treat positive and allegedly positive patients in their houses. “The objective” says doctor Cavanna “is to reduce the duration of the disease and lighten the burden on the ER (emergency room)”. They predict that this initiative could decrease the contagion and the duration of patients’ hospitalization by a week. Dr Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way. - Province of Piacenza. Italy. 16/04/2020.
Luigi Cavanna and Gabriele Cremona visit Franco Marini, a 62 years old Covid-19 patient.
Close to Codogno - epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy. Doctor Luigi Cavanna, the head of the oncology ward in Piacenza hospital, and Gabriele Cremona, deputy of the oncology ward, - equipped with all the necessary safety gears and a handheld ultrasound - took upon themselves to visit and treat positive and allegedly positive patients in their houses. “The objective” says doctor Cavanna “is to reduce the duration of the disease and lighten the burden on the ER (emergency room)”. They predict that this initiative could decrease the contagion and the duration of patients’ hospitalization by a week. Dr Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way. - Piacenza. Italy. 12/11/2020.
Luigi Cavanna and Gabriele Cremona visit Arnoldo Michelotti, a 62 years old Covid-19 patient.
Near to a possible new lockdown, the head of oncology at Piacenza’s hospital Luigi Cavanna resumes his visits to Covid-19 infected patients, after a short interruption caused by the decrease of the contaminations during the summer.
With the help of Gabriele Cremona, they go to the countryside of the valleys of Piacenza, , using a pulmonary scan and an oximeter to control the oxygen percentage in the blood.
Dr. Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way. - Province of Piacenza. Italy. 31/03/2020.
Dr. Luigi Cavanna takes a break at the Piacenza Hospital after visiting the patients the whole morning.
Close to Codogno - epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy. Doctor Luigi Cavanna, the head of the oncology ward in Piacenza hospital, and Gabriele Cremona, deputy of the oncology ward, - equipped with all the necessary safety gears and a handheld ultrasound - took upon themselves to visit and treat positive and allegedly positive patients in their houses. “The objective” says doctor Cavanna “is to reduce the duration of the disease and lighten the burden on the ER (emergency room)”. They predict that this initiative could decrease the contagion and the duration of patients’ hospitalization by a week. Dr Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way. - Province of Piacenza. Italy. 31/03/2020.
Dr. Cavanna looks at the family photographs on the wall in the entryway of Angela Carlaghi's home.
Close to Codogno - epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy. Doctor Luigi Cavanna, the head of the oncology ward in Piacenza hospital, and Gabriele Cremona, deputy of the oncology ward, - equipped with all the necessary safety gears and a handheld ultrasound - took upon themselves to visit and treat positive and allegedly positive patients in their houses. “The objective” says doctor Cavanna “is to reduce the duration of the disease and lighten the burden on the ER (emergency room)”. They predict that this initiative could decrease the contagion and the duration of patients’ hospitalization by a week. Dr Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way. - Province of Piacenza. Italy. 17/10/2020.
Dr. Cavanna offers to Giovanni Sartori his condolences for the loss of Stella Maggi, his mother. Stella Maggi, after she had been cure by Covid-19, she died in the 4th June 2020, with celebral hematoma.
Close to Codogno - epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy. Doctor Luigi Cavanna, the head of the oncology ward in Piacenza hospital, and Gabriele Cremona, deputy of the oncology ward, - equipped with all the necessary safety gears and a handheld ultrasound - took upon themselves to visit and treat positive and allegedly positive patients in their houses. “The objective” says doctor Cavanna “is to reduce the duration of the disease and lighten the burden on the ER (emergency room)”. They predict that this initiative could decrease the contagion and the duration of patients’ hospitalization by a week. Dr Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way. - Province of Piacenza. Italy. 12/11/2020.
Doctor Cavanna sets up his protective equipment, in order to visit his patients in the countryside.
Close to Codogno - epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy. Doctor Luigi Cavanna, the head of the oncology ward in Piacenza hospital, and Gabriele Cremona, deputy of the oncology ward, - equipped with all the necessary safety gears and a handheld ultrasound - took upon themselves to visit and treat positive and allegedly positive patients in their houses.
“The objective” says doctor Cavanna “is to reduce the duration of the disease and lighten the burden on the ER (emergency room)”.
They predict that this initiative could decrease the contagion and the duration of patients’ hospitalization by a week.
Dr. Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way. - Province of Piacenza. Italy. 20/03/2020.
Due to the unexpected and heavy request of cremations, the crematorium of Piacenza arranges the coffins as they can, waiting to become ashes.
Close to Codogno - epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy. Doctor Luigi Cavanna, the head of the oncology ward in Piacenza hospital, and Gabriele Cremona, deputy of the oncology ward, - equipped with all the necessary safety gears and a handheld ultrasound - took upon themselves to visit and treat positive and allegedly positive patients in their houses. “The objective” says doctor Cavanna “is to reduce the duration of the disease and lighten the burden on the ER (emergency room)”. They predict that this initiative could decrease the contagion and the duration of patients’ hospitalization by a week. Dr Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way. - Province of Piacenza. Italy. 26/03/2020.
Dr. Luigi Cavanna, explaining the situation to Gabriele Cremona, after a visit at Stella Maggi's house in Piacenza countryside.
Close to Codogno - epicenter of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy. Doctor Luigi Cavanna, the head of the oncology ward in Piacenza hospital, and Gabriele Cremona, deputy of the oncology ward, - equipped with all the necessary safety gears and a handheld ultrasound - took upon themselves to visit and treat positive and allegedly positive patients in their houses. “The objective” says doctor Cavanna “is to reduce the duration of the disease and lighten the burden on the ER (emergency room)”. They predict that this initiative could decrease the contagion and the duration of patients’ hospitalization by a week. Dr Cavanna was the first doctor in the world to attempt this treatment during the first wave of Covid-19. He took care of more than 330 patients within what time frame, and saved all of their lives, and none of his patients have died. In July 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as representative of the Italian Health Corps.
The photographed scene was not influenced in any way.
Country Doctor
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Second Place
Eliana Marcela Rendon, 32, cries as she and her husband Edilson Valencia, 48, witness as Marcela's grandmother Carmen Evelia Toro, 74, passes away from COVID-19 at her bedside in the ICU of North Shore University Hospital in Queens, NY, on Sunday, April 19, 2020. Mrs. Toro was admitted on March 20, and was intubated a week later. After two weeks on a ventilator and declining steadily, the family agreed with doctors to remove her from the ventilator and she passed peacefully a little over an hour later with Marcela holding her hand.- Dr .Becky Lou, prepares to install an arterial line in a failing patient suffering from COVID-19 in an ICU at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, NY, on Friday, April 10, 2020. Long Island Jewish was flooded with thousands of critical COVID-19 victims and expanded to operate 8 ICU's in the hospital. When it was over they had treated 2,530 coronavirus-related hospitalizations, the second highest in New York City. More than 20,000 people died during the first wave, making New York City, one of the richest cities in the world, the epicenter of the unprecedented global pandemic.
- Dr. Erroll Byer, Jr., MD, Chair, Obstetrics & Gynecology, shows her baby for the first time by video conference to Precious Anderson, 31, who is sick with Covid-19 and recently came off of a ventilator in the ICU at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, in Brooklyn, NY, on Thursday, April 9, 2020. Ms. Anderson was admitted to the hospital and then placed on a ventilator as the virus ravaged her lungs, and doctors delivered her child by C-section, while she was intubated, and both she and her baby are healthy and recovering. The 175 year old facility, a small, independent hospital, has fought to keep pace as the COVID19 pandemic has exploded in New York City, with thousands of deaths and infections, making it the epicenter of the crisis in the United States.
- Harry, a respiratory therapist, cries in between caring for patients suffering from Covid-19 at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, NY, on Friday, April 10, 2020. Long Island Jewish was flooded with hundreds of critical COVID-19 victims and has expanded to operate 8 ICU's in the hospital. When it was over they had treated 2,530 coronavirus-related hospitalizations, the second highest in New York City.
- Dr. Stella Hahn, a Pulmonary Critical Care Attending Physician, leans in to hear a recently extubated patient breathe as she cares for patients suffering from COVID-19 in an intensive care unit at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, NY, on Saturday, May 16, 2020. Long Island Jewish was flooded with thousands of critical COVID-19 victims and expanded to operate 8 ICU's in the hospital. When it was over they had treated 2,530 coronavirus-related hospitalizations, the second highest in New York City.
- A victim of Covid-19 lies zipped in a body bag after dying in the ICU at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, in Brooklyn, NY, on Thursday, April 9, 2020. The 175 year old facility, a small, independent hospital, has fought to keep pace as the COVID19 pandemic has exploded in New York City, with thousands of deaths and infections, making it the epicenter of the crisis in the United States.
- A patient lies prone as they struggle to recover from COVID-19 in an ICU at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, NY, on Friday, April 10, 2020. In the early days of the pandemic in New York, critical care physicians struggled to develop effective ways to treat the lung damage the disease caused- turning patients on their stomachs, though labor intensive, was one of the simplest and most effective tools at their disposal. Long Island Jewish was flooded with thousands of critical COVID-19 victims and expanded to operate 8 ICU's in the hospital. When it was over they had treated 2,530 coronavirus-related hospitalizations, the second highest in New York City.
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Respiratory Therapist Roxanne Nora, 43, helps withdraw ventilation for a terminally ill patient dying from COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, in Brooklyn, NY, on Monday, April 27, 2020. The patient had not responded to treatment and consulting with family, doctors decided to shift from ventilation to palliative care as she passed. Respiratory Therapists are key to nearly every aspect of care for COVID-19 patients, as the virus usually attacks the lungs and causes severe drops in oxygen saturation in it's victims. The 175 year old facility, a small, independent hospital, has been transformed as it tries to cope with an exploding number of infections as the COVID19 pandemic has exploded in New York City, making it the epicenter of the crisis in the United States.
Credit: Victor J. Blue for The New York Times - Critical care staff help to move a patient attached to and ECMO, or Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation machine as he fights for his life against COVID-19 in the ECMO unit at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, NY, on Saturday, May 16, 2020. ECMO is an extreme life support treatment that cleanses the blood outside of the body, and it's limited availability and the intensity of the intervention meant that only a handful of patients could receive it. Long Island Jewish was been flooded with hundreds of critical COVID-19 victims and at the height of the crisis expanded to operate 8 ICU's in the hospital.
- A critical care nurse tends to ventilated patients suffering from COVID-19 in a new intensive care unit built just to handle the influx of corona virus patients at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, NY, on Saturday, May 16, 2020. Long Island Jewish was been flooded with hundreds of critical COVID-19 victims and at the height of the crisis expanded to operate 8 ICU's in the hospital.
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Basharrie McKenzie, 36, who is 29 weeks pregnant and recovering from Covid-19, cries in relief as she leaves her room to be discharged from the Brooklyn Hospital Center, in Brooklyn, NY, on Tuesday, April 7, 2020. Ms. McKenzie was admitted to the hospital and then placed on a ventilator as the virus ravaged her lungs, but she recovered and was able to leave the ICU and later return home from the hospital. The 175 year old facility, a small, independent hospital, has fought to keep pace as the COVID19 pandemic has exploded in New York City, with thousands of deaths and infections, making it the epicenter of the crisis in the United States.
Credit: Victor J. Blue for The New York Times - Patient Transport worker Alexis Gomez, 29, retrieves a body from a refrigerated trailer at The Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY, on Monday, April 20, 2020. Most hospitals in New York received at least two of the trailers to handle the overflow of bodies from the pandemic, and access to them was hidden from the press by state and local authorities. The 175 year old facility, a small, independent hospital, has been transformed as it tries to cope with an exploding number of infections as the COVID19 pandemic has exploded in New York City, making it the epicenter of the crisis in the United States.
The Epicenter
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Third Place
They took with them donkeys and beds and motorcycles and colorful cloths that they now drape over pipes to create shelters. Others left their shoes behind as they crossed a river to safety. Tens of thousands of Ethiopians who just weeks ago were contemplating the harvest season now huddle in refugee camps in Sudan. They ran from fields and homes and hospital rooms as months of tensions between Ethiopia’s government and that of its defiant Tigray region erupted into deadly fighting. Some walked for days to reach the border, and once they did, they were packed into buses or trucks for an arduous, 11-hour journey to a camp. As one vehicle left, a baby cried hysterically, and his brother held the infant toward the window for fresh air, explaining that the child was hungry and dehydrated and the bus too crowded. Once at the camp, they wait. For food, for word from loved ones, for water. Some crowd around a tap for hours before they can fill up their buckets. Children as young as 7 struggle to lift the heavy jugs onto their backs. Many arrived malnourished. One woman, who is 9 months pregnant, weighed just 45 kilograms (100 pounds). She wept when she saw the number on the scale. Another received a nutrition packet but couldn’t manage to eat it. The Tigray region remains largely cut off from the world, but still many of the refugees surround a small TV screen in the hopes of learning what might be happening back home. For many, it's their only source of information since they lost cell phones along the way.
Tigrayan refugees arrive on the banks of the Tekeze River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, Dec. 2, 2020.- Refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region wait to get cooked rice served by Sudanese local volunteers at Um Rakuba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Nov. 23, 2020.
- Refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region ride a bus going to the Village 8 temporary shelter, near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, Dec. 1, 2020.
- Tigrayan refugee children sing and dance inside a tent run by UNICEF for children's activities, in Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Dec. 10, 2020.
- A woman who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region holds her child inside of her temporary shelter at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Dec. 7, 2020.
- Men who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region watch news on a television at the Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Dec. 5, 2020.
- The sun sets nears the entrance of Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Dec. 13, 2020.
- Tigray men who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigray region, wait for UNHCR to distribute blankets at Hamdayet Transition Center, eastern Sudan, Nov. 21, 2020.
- Tigrinyan refugees who fled Ethiopia's conflict, prepare to cook their dinners in front of their temporary shelters, at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Dec. 12, 2020.
- Tigrinyan refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia, gather their belongings after their arrival from Village 8, a transit center near the Lugdi border crossing, at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Dec. 13, 2020. Convoys carrying over 500 Tigrinyan refugees arrived in Umm Rakouba, the only official refugee camp on Sunday.
- Tigray refugee children fight over medical masks and sanitizer given out by Non Governmental Organization Maarif in front of a clinic run by Mercy Corps in Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Dec. 10, 2020.
- Ethnic Tigrayan survivor Abrahaley Minasbo, 22, from Mai-Kadra, Ethiopia, shows his wounds from machetes, inside a shelter, in Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020.
Fleeing War
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