Month: October 2021

By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - When her two-year-old started feeling sick early last week, Tiffany Jackson didn't think it might be COVID-19. No one else in the family was sick. Adrian James just had a bit of a cough. She gave him cough syrup and put a humidifier in his room. But by Friday he was sweaty and his breathing was labored. Jackson took him to an emergency room in her small town of Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Doctors and nurses there did a chest X-ray and swabbed him for COVID - and then airlifted the child to Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, about 80 miles away. Jackson followed in a car, her grandmother at the wheel. They made the usually 90 minute-drive in about an hour. "I didn’t know if he was going to make it or not," Jackson said. "I was very emotional and j...

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – A Colorado woman with stage 5 renal failure was months away from getting a new kidney. Now, she and her donor are looking for another hospital after learning UCHealth’s new policy. According to UCHealth, the majority of transplant recipients and living donors are now required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Neither woman has received their shots. READ MORE: 'Crucial To Our Business': New CDOT Technology Aims To Improve Travel On HighwaysLeilani Lutali met her donor, Jaimee Fougner, in bible study just 10 months ago. (credit: Leilani Lutali and Jaimee Fougner) “It’s your choice on what treatment you have. In Leilani’s case, the choice has been taken from her. Her life has now been held hostage because of this mandate,” said Fougner. Fougner says she hasn’t r...

A 10-year-old girl in Suffolk, Virginia, died of COVID-19 last week. Her parents claim she was exposed to the virus while tasked to escort students with symptoms to the nurse. School officials are investigating as giving such a responsibility to students violates district protocol. Loading Something is loading. A fifth-grader died...

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – A Colorado woman with stage 5 renal failure was months away from getting a new kidney. Now, she and her donor are looking for another hospital after learning UCHealth’s new policy. According to UCHealth, the majority of transplant recipients and living donors are now required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Neither woman has received their shots. READ MORE: 'Crucial To Our Business': New CDOT Technology Aims To Improve Travel On HighwaysLeilani Lutali met her donor, Jaimee Fougner, in bible study just 10 months ago. (credit: Leilani Lutali and Jaimee Fougner) “It’s your choice on what treatment you have. In Leilani’s case, the choice has been taken from her. Her life has now been held hostage because of this mandate,” said Fougner. Fougner says she hasn’t r...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — An El Paso County woman says she won't be able to get a kidney transplant through UCHealth because she's not vaccinated against COVID-19. Leilani Lutali learned of this after receiving a letter, dated Sept. 28, from the UCHealth Transplant Center at its Anschutz Medical Campus: "The transplant team at University of Colorado Hospital has determined that it is necessary to place you inactive on the waiting list. You will be inactivated on the list for non-compliance by not receiving the COVID vaccine. You will have 30 days to begin the vaccination series. If your decision is to refuse COVID vaccination you will be removed from the kidney transplant list. You will continue to accrue waiting time, but you will not receive a kidney offer while listed inactive. ...

Photo: Philippe Huguen/AFP (Getty Images) A new study might provide some comfort to those who suffer from allergies. The research found little evidence that having allergies directly raises the risk of developing mental health problems, or vice-versa, something that previous research had suggested might be the case. Though it’s still possible that treating allergies can improve some people’s mental state, there doesn’t seem to be a cause-and-effect relationship between being allergic to something and mental illness, the researchers say. Allergies and mental health conditions like depression or severe anxiety are abundant ailments of humanity. Some studies have suggested that people diagnosed with either one are more likely to be diagnosed with the other. Based on that observational da...