Month: October 2021

A woman battling COVID-19 in North Carolina delivered what her sister described as a "miracle baby" while in a medically-induced coma earlier this month. The new mother is still "fighting for her life" against double pneumonia in a hospital as relatives care for her newborn baby, the woman's sister, Tarisha Leach, told the Charlotte-based news station WSOC-TV. "That baby is a miracle baby," Leach said during a recent interview with the station. "She's beautiful." Vicky Goodson is employed as the cafeteria manager at Starmount Academy of Excellence, an elementary school within the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools district that says on its website it enrolls fewer than 500 students. Goodson postponed plans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 until after pregnancy, her family members told the st...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA), the European Union's drug regulator, on Friday found a possible link between Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine and rare cases of blood clotting in deep veins. During a Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee meeting, the agency said it found a possible link between venous thromboembolism (VTE) and the J&J vaccine.  "VTE is a condition in which a blood clot forms in a deep vein, usually in a leg, arm or groin, and may travel to the lungs causing a blockage of the blood supply, with possible life-threatening consequences," the agency wrote in its meeting highlights. It is recommending that the condition be listed as a rare side effect. The agency also recommends that immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) be listed as a side effect of ...

Newer variants of the coronavirus like Alpha and Delta are highly contagious, infecting far more people than the original virus. Two new studies offer a possible explanation: The virus is evolving to spread more efficiently through air. The realization that the coronavirus is airborne indoors transformed efforts to contain the pandemic last year, igniting fiery debates about masks, social distancing and ventilation in public spaces. Most researchers now agree that the coronavirus is mostly transmitted through large droplets that quickly sink to the floor and through much smaller ones, called aerosols, that can float over longer distances indoors and settle directly into the lungs, where the virus is most harmful. The new studies don’t fundamentally change that view. But the findings sign...

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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- California will soon require all students in both public and private schools to get the COVID-19 vaccine once the shot is fully authorized by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) for different age groups. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the new emergency order on Friday while visiting a middle school in San Francisco. The COVID-19 vaccine will now join a list of 10 other vaccinations required for children to attend school in the state. The governor said the state will issue the mandate in the next school term following the FDA's approval, the earliest being Jan. 1, 2022 and the latest being July 1, 2022. The government has fully approved the COVID-19 vaccine for those 16 and over but only granted an emergency authorization for anyone 12 to 15. Once federal regulators ...