Month: November 2020

BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. -- A 92-year-old pianist is wowing her audience. Elaine Lebar suffers from dementia but remembers her love for music. She recently went viral on TikTok with a performance of Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata' in 2019. Elaine says, "I don't know it," before she turns to play the third movement from Beethoven's famous work. RELATED: Singer uses her voice to unlock memories for grandfather with dementia Lebar was playing at a senior living community in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts while her daughter Randi Lebar recorded. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Randi said she was unable to visit her mother for several months this year. When she was finally able to visit again, she posted a video to TikTok of Elaine's playing, "with the goal of raising awareness about Alzheimer's dementi...

DENVER (KDVR) — A Denver mom says she had to perform life-saving measures on her teenage son as he struggled to breathe hours before being diagnosed with COVID-19. Alisha Cdebaca’s 16-year-old son Marciano is now recovering at Denver Health. She says she wasn’t concerned about him getting seriously sick from the virus because of his age and overall health.  Cdebaca says her son’s friend shouted to her from the basement Monday night, saying he wasn’t waking up. “I ran downstairs and he was slouched over in his chair with his eyes rolled back,” said Cdebaca. She says she spent the next 15 minutes on the phone with 911 while performing chest compressions on her son. “He was gasping for air. He would stop and his lips were turning blue. That’s when I’d panic a...

by: DJ Summers, Matt Mauro Posted: Nov 11, 2020 / 06:13 PM MST / Updated: Nov 11, 2020 / 09:32 PM MST DENVER (KDVR) — New tools and fewer deaths are silver linings in the COVID-19 storm, but specialists still worry Colorado’s third wave will outpace even the pandemic’s early days. Dr. Heather Young, an infectious disease specialist at Denver Health, said if the rate of coronavirus spread doesn’t stop soon, hospitals may run out of room. “The community cases still seem to increasing at an exponential rate,” said Young. “And so if we continue to see more cases in the community, we are going to surpass the number we took care of in the spring. It’s definitely concerning. We just had so many COVID patients and other medical patients an...

Pickaway, where officials acknowledged that efforts to control viral spread were hectic and hindered by imperfect testing, exemplifies the broad challenges facing the nation’s jail and prison systems in the grip of the pandemic. Conditions long considered degrading — including overcrowded, unsanitary housing and inadequate inmate health care — have, in many places, become deadly. “A prison is now a public health threat,” said Armen Henderson, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Miami. He and other criminal justice reform advocates have called for massive reductions in incarceration because of the pandemic. They argue that measures such as distributing masks or allowing access to hand sanitizer do little to stop the spread of the virus in facilities where people live ...