Month: March 2021

A COVID-19 patient who spent 8 months on life support at a hospital in San Diego County miraculously overcoming obstacle after obstacle achieved his goal Tuesday: he finally got to go home. “It feels like a dream,” the patient’s mother, Cecilia Amador, told reporters standing in front of Scripps Memorial Hospital on Genesee Avenue in La Jolla. The hospital had been home to her son, Eduardo Moreno, since he was admitted on July 19, 2020 – eight very, very long months ago. Eduardo Moreno had been at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla in San Diego County since July 19, 2020 – three of those months were spent in a coma, reports NBC 7's Claudette Stefanian. Fighting back tears, Amador said she couldn’t believe that, after everything – includin...

ATLANTA (CNN) — With more than 44 million people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in the United States, many adults are hopeful that a more normal life is on the horizon. Now families are wondering when vaccines will be available for teens and children. COVID-19 vaccines currently authorized in the United States are only available for adults, except Pfizer/BioNTech's vaccine, which is authorized for people ages 16 and older. While there's a chance that a vaccine will be available to high school and middle school-age children by this fall, younger children may still be months away from vaccination when the upcoming school year begins. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has said younger children may have to wait until the first quarter...

Twenty cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed among staffers and patients in the cancer ward at Duke Raleigh Hospital, NBC affiliate WRAL reports.The outbreak has been limited to one fifth-floor wing at the hospital, which is now closed to visitors, Duke University Health System spokeswoman Sarah Avery said in an email to WRAL.Click the video player above to watch the latest headlines from WXII 12 News.Duke Health declined to break down how many patients or how many employees have the virus.The outbreak has only affected one wing on the fifth floor of the hospital, which is now closed to visitors, Avery said.All patients and staff in the unit are being tested, and staff is disinfecting all rooms and common areas. Infected patients who require hospitalization have been moved to the hos...

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday launched a new website to help Mainers pre-register for a COVID-19 vaccine.The state has been working on launching the website for several weeks.Maine CDC Director Dr. Nirav Shah said the website is not meant to be a statewide vaccination registration system and will not supplant existing registration and appointment systems many of the state’s health care systems have already created.“We know that as we move into the 50s, 30s, 40s, there are going to be more opportunities to get vaccinated because there may be more types of clinics that open up," Shah said. Shah said the state is working to determine which providers will utilize the state’s system.Larger providers such as MaineHealth plan to continue using their own pre-...