There’s no way to gloss over the tragedy in a year where more than 300,000 Americans lost their lives, millions lost their jobs and untold numbers lost their sense of hope as the nation struggled to navigate a pandemic.
ECMO technology takes over important heart and lung functions when those organs are too weak to work effectively on their own. Pictured here with the medical equipment used to treat some Covid-19 patients are, at left, Dr. Harsh Jain, cardiothoracic surgeon and medical director of the ECMO program at Mercy Hospital, with staff, from left, perfusionist Chad Evoniuk; registered nurse and ECMO specialist Rose List; Denise Goodberlet, DNP; and Samantha Kanminski, RN and ECMO specialist.
Conway the Machine, right, hands off pizza to Buffalo City Mission worker Adrian Smith. Conway helped to unload 11 sheet pizzas and buckets of wings he donated.
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ECMO technology takes over important heart and lung functions when those organs are too weak to work effectively on their own. Pictured here with the medical equipment used to treat some Covid-19 patients are, at left, Dr. Harsh Jain, cardiothoracic surgeon and medical director of the ECMO program at Mercy Hospital, with staff, from left, perfusionist Chad Evoniuk; registered nurse and ECMO specialist Rose List; Denise Goodberlet, DNP; and Samantha Kanminski, RN and ECMO specialist.
Conway the Machine, right, hands off pizza to Buffalo City Mission worker Adrian Smith. Conway helped to unload 11 sheet pizzas and buckets of wings he donated.
