By LUANNE RIFE The Roanoke Times ROANOKE — No sooner had Ballad Health finished a news briefing in April to say it would begin treating seriously ill COVID-19 patients with antibodies from survivors’ plasma, when one of its executives raised his arm to donate. Chris Miller, chief operating officer of Bristol Regional Hospital, said during…
By ALLISON WRABEL | (434) 978-7261 Tay Washington’s life changed forever on Aug. 12, 2017. “It basically took away my ability to take care of myself and provide for myself,” she said. “Aug. 12 is devastating for me.” Washington was driving in downtown Charlottesville and had been detoured down Fourth Street. She was stopped at…
Group Decries Treatment of Farmville Detainees by ICE His cough is hollow, a raspy effort he said feels like blades scraping his lungs. Whispering into the phone — his one vehicle to the outside world as he grapples with a reality he calls “a hell we’re living in” — he recites the horrors he’s come…
