is a freelance journalist who lives in Solana Beach.
Visions of a carefree spring break vacation in Mexico beckon like mirages in the Sonoran Desert. Imagine escaping COVID-19 lockdown to tan at Playa del Amor in Cabo San Lucas, sip a margarita while being serenaded by mariachis in Puerto Vallarta’s Zona Romantica or take a meditative hike on Tecate’s sacred Mount Cuchama.
I hate to be a bubble-bursting killjoy, but now is not the time. Mexico has moved into third place on the global fatality ranking after the United States and Brazil, surpassing India a country with 10 times its population. Our enticing southern neighbor suffers from chronic shortages of vaccine, hospital beds and life-saving oxygen tanks. By going there, we risk adding to the country’s health care crisis. My family learned this lesson the hard, scary way.
To help boost morale of UC San Diego Health’s intensive care unit nurses and respiratory therapists, a La Jolla family has launched a GoFundMe page to raise money to provide meals and gifts.
The babies are being cared for at the Jacobs Medical Center s neonatal intensive care unit, and they are each and every one cozy in their one-of-a-kind onesies knitted by a staffer at UCSD Health.
The tiny tots are in good hands with the folks from the UC San Diego Health Level III NICU, which officials said is the only local hospital with a regional NICU and a labor and delivery service under the same roof.
Babies at the NICU are all either receiving treatment for medical challenges, were born prematurely or are recovering from surgery.
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Since 2016, Bernard Thurman has undergone traditional treatments, experimental therapies and surgeries to counter the cancer within him, but nothing has eradicated the disease. Earlier this year, the oncologists in Los Angeles who were treating him referred Thurman to a personalized cancer therapy trial being developed at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health.
“Truly, I am running out of options as far as treatment goes,” said Thurman, whose cancer developed in his tonsils and has since spread to his lungs.
On Dec. 8, Thurman became the first patient to undergo an investigational cell therapy that uses a patient’s own, lab-grown immune cells, specifically tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, or TIL, in an effort to destroy his cancer.
San Diego hospital workers expect to start vaccinating staff as early as Tuesday
The vaccine will be stored at a county facility, UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest and Rady Children’s Hospital because they have ultra-cold freezers. Author: Brandon Lewis, CBS News 8 Team Published: 7:53 PM PST December 14, 2020 Updated: 11:24 AM PST December 15, 2020
SAN DIEGO San Diego hospitals expect to receive their first allotment of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine Tuesday. Several vials arrived in San Diego County early Monday morning aboard a FedEx plane.
The vaccine will be stored at a county facility, UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest and Rady Children’s Hospital because they have ultra-cold freezers. Employees may begin to receive them as early as Tuesday afternoon although it depends on how long it takes to complete the required documentation. Each vial is being closely tracked and staff must sign consent forms.