Month: June 2020

A California man says he and 27 members of his family tested positive for the coronavirus, including his dad, who succumbed to the illness just before Father’s Day. Richard Garay told Los Angeles-based TV-station KTLA that he was the first in his family to come down with COVID-19 symptoms last month. “It went from running nose to headache to full-blown fever,” Garay said. Soon after, his 60-year-old father Vidal Garay also caught the illness — and his condition quickly worsened. “It was painful to watch my dad’s health decline so drastically in front of me,” Garay told the outlet. His last words to his father were: “Dad, I don’t think I’m going to make it.” But while Garay eventually recovered, his dad didn’t, passing away on June 20, a day before Father’s Day. It’s ...

Hospital bed and intensive care unit capacity could soon become a concern in the Inland Empire, where coronavirus cases continue to rise in two Southern California counties with the second- and fifth-highest number of cases reported in the state. Across all hospitals in Riverside County, intensive care beds are 99% occupied as of Sunday, said spokeswoman Brooke Federico — a 19% increase over the past two weeks. There are just five empty ICU beds remaining in Riverside County.  Of the 380 ICU patients in Riverside County, 28% are confirmed COVID-19 patients. Overall, the county’s hospital beds are currently 63% occupied. This means hospitals have flexibility to convert some of those empty beds to ICU beds under their surge plans, which is what hospitals plan to do in the coming week, Fe...

Joanna, in her third trimester of pregnancy at the time, lives in New York and had bought the device — about the size of a Matchbox car — for her and her husband so they could be fortified with information before they checked into the hospital for the arrival in early June of their daughter. But I was game, too: I enjoy these kinds of tests because I am a sucker for ways to measure my fitness against anyone else’s. Also, we had been in Indonesia and Japan in February, squeezing some travel before we realized the enormity of the coronavirus pandemic. After we returned from Asia, I drove to Upstate New York for a six-day visit with my 89-year-old mother. We hugged, we kissed, we went out to restaurants, shops, grocery stores. Back in Washington, D.C., I went swimming at Wilson High Scho...

Amy Watson was diagnosed with COVID-19 more than two months ago and is still dealing with symptoms. PORTLAND, Oregon — A Portland woman was diagnosed with COVID-19 more than two months ago and is still dealing with symptoms. She's far from alone. The virus is causing long-term health issues and medical experts are trying to figure out why. Amy Watson started a support group on social media to help others like her, and KGW's Morgan Romero talked with her Sunday about her journey. Watson says she first got sick on March 15...

A three-weeks-old baby is currently in serious condition at the Bnei Zion Medical Center in Haifa due to a herpetic infection, which began in the genital area and has spread to the brain, leading to convulsions and seizures.  Laboratory tests found that the infant likely contracted the Type 1 herpes virus during his brit, directly from the mohel, who performed the ceremony using the controversial Orthodox method of blood cleaning known as "Metzitzah B'Peh," or oral suction. Director of Pediatrics at Bnei Zion Medical Center, Prof. Itzhak Sarugo, said that "the baby was hospitalized in serious condition, with a visible inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) accompanied by prolonged convulsions and a severe skin infection that started in the groin area where the circumcision w...