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Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
Read full article: Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020The world also said goodbye to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement who died in July. Other former political figures who died this year include Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, New York Mayor David Dinkins, Arizona Gov. Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2020 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___David Stern, 77. The guitarist who supplied the scratching, seething sound that fueled the highly influential British punk band Gang of Four. He fused African rhythms with funk to become one of the most influential musicians in world dance music.
The late Nick Cordero to have an album released in his honor
Read full article: The late Nick Cordero to have an album released in his honorNick Cordero, the Broadway actor who spent more than 90 days in a hospital fighting for his life after contracting coronavirus, will have an album released posthumously. Broadway Records said Wednesday it will release Nick Cordero: Live Your Life on Sept. 17 what would have been his 42nd birthday. Cordero's album is named after one of his songs and captures his cabaret performance in April 2019 at the Broadway supper club Feinsteins/54 Below. Cordero was in many stage productions, including Bullets Over Broadway in New York, which earned him a Tony Award nomination. His wife, dancer and personal trainer Amanda Kloots, said shed never seen Cordero work so hard on something as his cabaret show.
Post-COVID fibrosis a concern even for younger coronavirus patients
Read full article: Post-COVID fibrosis a concern even for younger coronavirus patientsJACKSONVILLE, Fla. Most of the discussions of COVID-19 complications have been about older people, but we know the disease can hit younger people as well. There was also a 20-year-old COVID- 19 survivor in Chicago who required a lung transplant after he caught the virus to treat a condition known as post-COVID fibrosis. Post-COVID fibrosis is a long-term complication associated with coronavirus infection that occurs when fluid builds up in tiny air sacs in the lungs. Post-COVID fibrosis reduces oxygen in the bloodstream and deprives the organs of oxygen and can lead to organ failure. But Pulmonologist Raymond Pumarejo with Ascension St. Vincents said its difficult to predict who is going to get this degree of pneumonia, inflammation or fibrosis.
Broadway veteran Nick Cordero dies from virus complications
Read full article: Broadway veteran Nick Cordero dies from virus complicationsFILE - In this April 10, 2014, file photo, actor Nick Cordero attends the after-party for the opening night of "Bullets Over Broadway" in New York. Tony Award-nominated actor Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as Waitress, A Bronx Tale and Bullets Over Broadway, has died in Los Angeles after suffering severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus. Cordero died Sunday, July 5, 2020, at Cedars-Sinai hospital after more than 90 days in the hospital, according to his wife, Amanda Kloots. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)
Broadway veteran Nick Cordero dies from virus complications
Read full article: Broadway veteran Nick Cordero dies from virus complicationsFILE - In this April 10, 2014, file photo, actor Nick Cordero attends the after-party for the opening night of "Bullets Over Broadway" in New York. Tony Award-nominated actor Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as Waitress, A Bronx Tale and Bullets Over Broadway, has died in Los Angeles after suffering severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus. Cordero died Sunday, July 5, 2020, at Cedars-Sinai hospital after more than 90 days in the hospital, according to his wife, Amanda Kloots. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK Tony Award-nominated actor Nick Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as Waitress, A Bronx Tale and Bullets Over Broadway, has died in Los Angeles after suffering severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus. Cordero died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai hospital after more than 90 days in the hospital, according to his wife, Amanda Kloots.