In The News
'Where are the Strokes and the Heart Attacks?' Doctors Worry as Patients Avoid ERs
California’s hospital emergency departments are strangely quiet places these days. Before the coronavirus hit, tens of thousands of people across the state sought emergency help each day. But in the weeks since the virus began its spread throughout the U.S., those numbers have plummeted by a third to a half, according to physicians overseeing emergency … Read More
SoCal Pulmonologist Anoop Maheshwari's Fight to Recover from Covid-19 a 'Humbling Experience'
Two weeks ago, Indian American pulmonologist Anoop Maheshwari bid his despairing family goodbye. He was at the hospital – this time as a patient – and it didn’t seem likely he was going to come back home. As the full fury of the coronavirus continues to be felt in hospitals across the country, scenes like … Read More
Moms on the Frontline
Grace Lozinski Job: Medical doctor and chief quality officer at Hoag Residence: Irvine Family: Daughters Nicolette Petrie, 10, and Natasha Petrie, 8. Her husband, Russell Petrie, is an orthopedic surgeon. What is your role on the COVID-19 team at Hoag? “I am working very closely with infection prevention, as well as administration and medical staff … Read More
Leaked Remdesivir Results Show Promise, Helping Southern Californians with Coronavirus
The anti-viral drug remdesivir outsmarts the coronavirus. Posing as the one of the building blocks the virus needs to make copies of itself, it’s incorporated into the virus’s genome — stopping it from reproducing and essentially shutting it down in its tracks, research has found. Developed by the Bay Area’s Gilead Sciences in 2014 to … Read More
Pregnant During a Pandemic? What You Need to Know
Q: [Adults] I’m pregnant and my due date is in a month. Should I be concerned about delivering in a hospital during this pandemic? Travel plans can wait. Parties can wait. But your baby’s birth is not going to wait until COVID-19 passes. While it is natural to feel anxious about delivering during a pandemic, … Read More
No, Face Masks Do Not Replace Social Distancing. Here's Why.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that people cover up their faces when they heading out in public. Some larger cities, like Los Angeles, are making this mandatory, and many across the nation are busy whipping up DIY cloth face masks if they can’t get their hands on ones elsewhere. But … Read More
We Are COVID Strong
Becker’s Hospital Review including comments from Dr. Michael Brant-Zawadzki in a video providing words of encouragement for the health care community.
Video Discussing Orange County's Response to COVID-19 features Council Member Diane Dixon, Mayor Will O'Neill and Hoag Hospital
The Newport Beach Chamber shared the video of Dr. Michael Brant Zawadzki and Dr. Martin Fee discussing COVID-19 with NB Mayor Will O’Neill and Council member Diane Dixon. View the video here.
Hoag Hospital Seeks Recovered Patients' Antibody-Filled Plasma for Coronavirus Treatment
Recovered coronavirus patients went from having an illness nobody wants to having the antibodies that could be what the sickest patients need. And local researchers are eager to bank plasma from the recovered patients to make treatments for the potentially devastating virus that causes the respiratory disease COVID-19. Hoag Hospital, which has locations in Newport … Read More
Hoag Hospital Offers So. California COVID-19 Patents Access to Global Clinical Trials
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian (Hoag) has commenced enrolling patients in three clinical trials that offer hope against the COVID-19 pandemic. Two of the studies are testing Gilead’s Remdesivir (RDV), a potentially promising antiviral drug, while the third trial is testing the effectiveness of immune blood plasma. Hoag maintains a state-of-the-art clinical research infrastructure which prompted … Read More