Remember in “A Charlie Brown Christmas” when Lucy — folding her fingers and thumb into a fist — gives brother Linus five good reasons why he should go through with his role in the Christmas play?
For patients battling sepsis — and the physicians racing against time to cure them — the infection packs a far more devastating punch.
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