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Virginia fertility clinics are busy building family foundations. Author: Nicole Livas (13News Now) Published: 10:53 PM EDT May 12, 2021 Updated: 11:23 PM EDT May 12, 2021
NORFOLK, Va. A recent study showed more women decided to freeze their eggs during the pandemic for fertility treatment in months or years ahead.
Sheila, a Richmond physician, is one of those women. What I did know was at the time I was not ready for a child, I was pretty much focused on my professional development, she said.
Sheila said she started thinking about freezing her eggs when she turned 30 and time kept ticking. My friends reminded me: Hey, didn t you say you were going to do this? Sheila said. And I was like, Yeah, yeah, and then Covid hit and then I was stuck only working and I couldn t see my family, and suddenly I was 38!
This is according to the
University of Miami, which is conducting research into the new coronavirus vaccines flooding the United States to ascertain whether or not they can cause infertility and whether they have any other damaging effects.
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The study is being led by Dr. Ranjith Ramasamy, a reproductive urologist working for the
University of Miami Health System and an expert in male infertility, andrology, sexual dysfunction and hypogonadism. He led an earlier study that found that the coronavirus was present in the testicles of men with COVID-19 for up to six months after the initial infection.