WTEN: Fireworks Celebrate NY Reaching COVID Vaccine Benchmark

Multiple groundbreaking therapies to treat the sickest COVID-positive patients in the Capital Region are being employed at St. Peter’s Health Partners’ (SPHP) acute care hospitals in Albany and Troy. They include the antiviral drug remdesivir; IL-6 inhibitor drugs; macrophage inhibitors; and convalescent blood plasma therapy.

Congratulations to Valerie Rivituso for being named a “Nurse of the Year,” and to Kelli Foley and Amy Froehlich for being Nurse of the Year Finalists, as part of the 2018 Times Union Salute to Nurses.

Jorge Cerda, M.D., chief of medicine at St. Peter’s Hospital, was interviewed by WHYY radio in Philadelphia about kidney problems associated with COVID-19, including excessive blood-clotting