“I always want to be one step ahead,” said Cummins. “Having it (antigen test) just be readily available when I need it has been wonderful.”
Her son Kyson is a T-K student in the district. He was given the nasal swab test right after his mother.
“Kind of like ticklish, ticklish,” he said describing how it felt.
Doctor Omid Bakhtar, a physician at Sharp Hospital, is co-chair of a county task force looking at what it would take to test for antigens at schools.
Coronado Unified was the first to make it happen, and since January more than 1,800 people have been given the rapid antigen test, which can produce results in 15 minutes.
Private practices finding it difficult to get COVID vaccine
California s guidelines for distributing the vaccine say front line workers like doctors and nurses are supposed to be first in line to get the shot. Author: LaMonica Peters (KFMB) Updated: 11:43 AM PST January 3, 2021
SAN DIEGO Some doctors in private practice say they’re having a hard time getting the vaccine and are being shut out at hospitals. This despite the state’s guidelines for distributing the vaccine say that frontline workers, like doctors and nurses, are supposed to be first in line to get the coronavirus vaccine.
Dr. Hollingsworth says after hours of waiting in line last week, she finally got the vaccine but says she’s one of the lucky ones. She says all over the country doctors in private practice are struggling to protect themselves because they can’t get the vaccine.
Family welcomes first baby born at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital in 2021
Delmar Hawke was born at 12:05 am on 1/1/2021
Sharp Mary Birch Hospital s first baby born in 2021: Delmar Hawke
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SAN DIEGO (KGTV) Each year, about 8,000 babies are born at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital. But only one family gets to claim that their baby was the first to be born there that year.
Melissa and Nicolas Hawke are parents again. In their arms, they lovingly hold their 6-pound 8-ounce bundle of joy, Delmar. I totally was thinking she was going to be born on the 31st, anywhere around 8 PM to 10 PM, mother Melissa said.
By Yucatan Times on December 20, 2020
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Andrés Smith became the first Mexican to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.
He is a doctor, he works as director of the Emergency Department of Sharp Hospital in Chula Vista, San Diego, California, and being part of the Health staff that treats patients with COVID-19, he is within the first segment of the US population to receive the vaccine.
In addition, he is president of the Mexican Red Cross in Tijuana and a member of the Binational Leadership Council for his philanthropic work at Sharp Chula Vista.
Dr. Smith and his colleagues in the emergency department were awarded the Donald N. Sharp Medal of Honor from the Sharp HealthCare Foundation for their contributions to various campaigns including “Above and Beyond,” aimed at building the next generation of hospitals in South San Diego County.