These medical experts set the record straight for today s parents and prospective parents
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As if family planning, conception, pregnancy, birth, and bringing baby home weren’t complicated enough, COVID-19 has brought an additional set of concerns.
Many potential parents have similar questions about how to best move forward with their lives and plans for their families. Here, experts a family medicine physician, OB/GYNs, and pediatricians from Virginia Hospital Center reveal the latest thinking on the four stages of starting (or expanding) a family.
More than 4,200 frontline healthcare workers and providers at New Hanover Regional Medical Center have already received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination, which were initially offered to frontline healthcare workers at the highest risk of exposure to the virus.
North Carolina has now opened eligibility to phase 1b, group 1 of the state s vaccination plan. Last week, NHRMC Physician Group Primary Care started vaccinating patients age 75 and older. NHRMC Physician Group will announce when additional groups are eligible to make appointments to receive a vaccine.
Below are some answers to frequently asked questions about the vaccine.
What is the COVID-19 vaccine?
The New Hanover County Health Department on Jan. 7 began vaccinating seniors 75 years old and older as part of the state’s current guidelines for eligibility. State officials are working through the Trump administration’s announcement Tuesday about expanded guidelines for vaccine eligibility.
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The county opened appointment slots on Thursday and Friday for the 955 vaccine doses it now has. Less than three hours after announcing the openings, county officials reported shortly before 2 p.m. that those appointments were all full.
The NHRMC Physician Group primary care practices opened COVID-19 vaccinations to their established patients in the eligible age group starting Jan. 8.
North Carolina’s Covid-19 numbers continue to rise, hitting a one-day record-breaker of 11,581 cases reported on Saturday, Jan. 9. (Port City Daily/File)
SOUTHEASTERN NC According to the latest numbers from the state’s Covid-19 dashboard, North Carolina has reached a total of 614,355 Covid-19 cases, with 3,871 people hospitalized and 7,425 deaths. Statewide case counts keep breaking one-day numbers for the second weekend in a row. N.C. Health and Human Services (NCHHS) reported 11,581 on Saturday, Jan. 9, following two days of hitting more than 10,000 cases each day.
New Hanover, Brunswick and Pender counties also are hitting new highs. All three counties are in the red zone, meaning there is critical viral spread of Covid-19, according to the Covid-19 County Alert System.