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Julio CĂ©sar Baquerizo PlĂșas, Firefighter
6May By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles

Julio CĂ©sar Baquerizo PlĂșas, Firefighter

Julio César Baquerizo Plúas – a  Firefighter at Chief of Occupational Safety, Guayaquil, Ecuador – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Julio was 51 years old. Julio César Baquerizo Pluas, 51, chief of Occupational Safety and Health. He had 15 months in the entity. Source: El Universo Please help us in adding details.
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Héctor Gutiérrez Mendoza, Otolaryngologist
6May By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Mexico, Profiles

Héctor Gutiérrez Mendoza, Otolaryngologist

Héctor Gutiérrez Mendoza – an Otolaryngologist at IMSS Hospital General de Zona No. 3, Aguascalientes, Mexico – passed away afer suffering from COVID-19. Hector was 52 years old. After several weeks of being in poor health after being infected by COVID19, the 52-year-old doctor Héctor Gutiérrez Mendoza finally died. The doctor was hospitalized in clinic 2 of the IMSS when he became seriously ill, for weeks he was fighting for his life. Source: El Clarinete
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Vaccine for Covid-19 unlikely time, say experts
5May By Web TeamNo Comments
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Vaccine for Covid-19 unlikely time, say experts

Leading health experts have warned scientists may not be able to develop a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) at all and pointed that it has happened before in case of HIV and dengue among others, a report has said. More than 100 vaccines are currently under pre-clinical trials and a couple of those have entered the human trial stage—at Oxford University in England made from a chimpanzee virus and in the US for a different vaccine produced by Moderna. “There are some viruses that we still do not have vaccines against,” Dr David Nabarro, a professor of global health at Imperial College London, was quoted as saying by CNN on Sunday. “We can’t make an absolute assumption that a vaccine will appear at all, or if it does appear, whether it will pass all the tests o...
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Tim Brooke-Taylor, Comedian
5May By Web TeamNo Comments
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Tim Brooke-Taylor, Comedian

British performer Tim Brooke-Taylor, a member of comedy trio the Goodies, died after contracting the new coronavirus. He was 79. Brooke-Taylor’s agent says he died the morning of April 12 “from COVID-19.” Brooke-Taylor was part of Cambridge University’s Footlights revue, the breeding ground of several generations of British comic talent. He broke into radio and television comedy in the 1960s alongside future Monty Python members John Cleese and Graham Chapman. Brooke-Taylor went on to form The Goodies with Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. The trio specialized in slightly surreal sketches incorporating visual inventiveness, slapstick and songs. Their song Funky Gibbon even became a U.K. top 10 chart hit in 1975. Their TV show, which ran throughout the 1970s, was a hit in Brita...
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Lee Konitz, jazz saxophonist
5May By Web TeamNo Comments
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Lee Konitz, jazz saxophonist

Lee Konitz, jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz, the last surviving member of the ensemble that played on the 1949 and 1950 sessions that became Miles Davis’ 1957 album Birth of the Cool, died April 15 of pneumonia, a complication of COVID-19, according to NPR. He was 92. Over his 70-year career, Konitz put out solo albums and also collaborated with Bill Evans, Anthony Braxton, Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Bill Frisell. Leon Konitz was born on October 13, 1927, in Chicago to Jewish parents of Austrian and Russian descent. At the age of eleven, Konitz received his first clarinet. However, he later dropped the instrument in favor of the tenor saxophone. He eventually moved from tenor to alto. His greatest influences at the time were the swing big bands he and his brother listened to on th...
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Allen Daviau, Cinematographer
5May By Web TeamNo Comments
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Allen Daviau, Cinematographer

Allen Daviau, Cinematographer Allen Daviau, who shot three of Steven Spielberg’s films, including E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, died April 14 of complications from COVID-19. He was 77. A five-time Oscar nominee, Daviau also was behind the camera on Empire of the Sun, Bugsy, The Color Purple, Avalon and Defending Your Life. “Allen was a wonderful artist but his warmth and humanity were as powerful as his lens. He was a singular talent and a beautiful human being,” Spielberg said in a statement. The director had sent a letter to his old friend upon hearing of his struggle with the virus; it was read to him several times at his bedside. Daviau was born on June 14, 1942, in New Orleans and raised in Los Angeles. He was introduced to Steven Spielberg in the late 1960s and the two ...
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