These lines are to commemorate my spectacular failure to win the North Street Book Prize with my 2024 collection “After Spruce: Poems in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ ‘Spruce’ During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic”.

Originally published Infection House July 2020

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#Healthcare #Ventilators

From NPR.org: Getting a ventilator can be a nightmare. Medicaid cuts may make it worse : Shots - Health News

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/11/29/nx-s1-5613340/als-medicaid-trump-disease-flaws-gaps-nursing-homes-ventilators-expense

@RiisuPutra mājās uzstādāma iekārta. Ventilators jau arī palīdzētu.
#Ventilators

Joe Rogan is still talking about the ventilators?! | @destiny

#LabLeak #Ventilators #JoeRogan #ElonMusk #Destiny

Tzivoni and his fellow wounded ICU soldiers are benefiting from a recently discovered additional and potentially internationally game-changing use of EyeControl, a #wearable #device that enables patients – including those on #ventilators – to #communicate with #medical staff and family members via eye #gestures and a #boneconduction #headset, to hear the recorded messages of loved ones – and to listen to one’s favorite music. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-808112 #healthcare #coma #neurology
Israeli company EyeControl creates revolutionary medical technology

EyeControl improves clinical outcomes, prevent cognitive decline, and enhance the patient and family experience.“We are honoured to be able to support every patient – but especially our soldiers."

The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
Canada’s brand new $169.5M ‘emergency’ ventilators sold as scrap for $6 a carton

The Trudeau Liberal government spent $169.5 million on a sole-sourced contract for emergency ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic, which are now being sold off as cheap scrap parts.

Western Standard
DWP under fire over new work capability assessment rule which is 'inhumane'

The DWP has seen protests block roads outside Parliament as critics demonstrated over benefits claimants being failed.

Birmingham Live
AbbVie CEO Richard Gonzalez to step down, Robert Michael to succeed him —Medtronic lifts annual profit forecast, exits ventilator business—FDA approves Iovance's Amtagvi as first T-cell therapy for a solid tumor--http://bit.ly/w28kSd #abbvie #ceos #medtech #medtronic #earnings #ventilators #solidtumors #fda #tcelltherapy #iovance #pharma #pharmanews #biotech #biopharma #biotechnology #cafepharma
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Winter Illness This Year Is a Different Kind of Ugly

Facing down simultaneous surges of flu, COVID, and RSV, most Americans still aren’t getting the vaccines that could temper the worst effects.

The Atlantic