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...hospital was, as usual, overwhelmed and understaffed when a man arrived the night of March 7. The triage nurse who first looked at Tse Chi Kwai, 43, immediately escorted him into the E.R. "He had a fever and a cough, and he was having a hard time catching his breath," says Jane Eckersall, 26, the principal nurse who treated Tse that evening. "And he looked scared." Tse had reason to be. On March 5, his mother died at home after suffering what had been diagnosed as a chest infection. A day before her death, Tse had come down with...
...there had been, Pollack and Mr. D. might have been treated differently. After leaving the hospital, Mr. D. returned to Scarborough Grace complaining of shortness of breath. He probably had SARS by then, but because no one had connected him to Tse, he was sent to cardiac care before being transferred to York Central Hospital, north of Toronto. Mr. D. was finally linked to SARS on March 28, the day before he died. York Central was then shut down, and more than 3,000 staff members, patients and visitors were isolated. "In hindsight," says Dr. Allison McGeer, a Toronto infectious...
...persistence are found within final clubs. Amidst the wood paneling, overstuffed armchairs and dead animals, under the framed letters from presidents and buried in the plush of Persian carpets, it multiplies and thrives. Everybody knows it, and some of those who choose to enter instinctively hold their breath to avoid breathing it in. But pity the fools who expose themselves every day, thinking they are immune...
Time since the new Hong Kong Tourism Board ads, billing the city as one that will “Take Your Breath Away,” debuted in British magazines...
From 1999 to 2001, Harrington and her colleagues examined claims made by traditional Chinese medicine, with a particular focus on qi, the Chinese term for “breath of life” or “vital essence...