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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

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

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

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

Becker’s Hospital Review including comments from Dr. Michael Brant-Zawadzki in a video providing words of encouragement for the health care community.

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.

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 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

We want to express how proud we are of all our colleagues at Hoag Hospital. Our team has been working tirelessly — and under extremely stressful and challenging circumstances — and we continue to provide the same compassionate and high-quality care for the Orange County community during the COVID-19 pandemic as we have always provided. … Read More

Hoag has launched a remote way for patients to reach a doctor without stepping foot into the hospital. The hospital’s “telehealth” program promises to connect clients with Hoag’s primary and specialty care physicians through phone or video visits. The hospital said video visits are being conducted using the popular Zoom platform, and patients should call … Read More