The moment eagles fans cant forget. Carson wentz sandwiched between two players. He left moments after setting a record for two touchdown passes. The birds clinched the division, but the victory is bittersweet. Were keeping our fingers crossed. Today were expecting to find out how serious wentzs injury is when he gets an mri on the knee. Nbc10s Pamela Osborne is live at the linc. This injury could be a huge blow to wentz and the team. Reporter it really could. There are really only a couple of different scenarios here. It could be a sprain. That would be the best case scenario. Even then, doctors say wentz would need time off the field to rest the knee. He would also need physical therapy. The biggest concern now is that his acl could be torn. Again, an mri would have to confirm that. That wont take place until later today. What youre looking at now is the moment of impact. This is when wentz sustained that injury. It was late in the third quarter. We talked to doctors who say if wentz
Mutating so as you say people are getting it, then getting a different strain of it again. Two times in the same season. You mentioned that 1,000 cases in week in delaware. Well in new jersey, in the most recent week, 3,000 cases and in pennsylvania, 26 people died in a single week and these numbers so far are not getting better. Trip to urgent care is where seventh grade teacher tara noel ended up after school tuesday. I have some cough, congestion im had it all weekend. Im teacher so im around kids and germs all day. Reporter she moved fast. Doctors say if you want to kick the flu or at least dramaly reduce its effects youve got treat it win 48 hours. We have anti virals that we give to patients in the form of a pill. What that does decreasing the severity of the disease in the patient but also decreases the communicable of the disease. Nurse practitioner amys patient case load at my Doc Urgent Care in center city is up their over the past few weeks which has been worst so this flu s
102. 5. Which really got me nervous. As any parent knows, who has a sick child,it is a heart wrenching proposition. Nicholas is normally a healthy and active fourth grader who enjoys doing projects with his dad and loves baseball. Now, he was having shortness of breath. His cough worsening. A chest xray at an urgent care confirmed nicholas had pneumon pneumonia. A dangerous complication children across the country are experiencing. In a flu season considered to be the worst in nearly a decade. Not the news this doting father of two wanted to hear. I live for my children and the bottom line is that i i cherish them and when theyre not well, it just drives me insane. It really does. Reporter dr. Mike says the flu causes inflammation in your body. Taking a toll on your immune system. And that makes you more susceptible to bacterial infections and pneumonia. As father, im petrified, because we know that new known ya can be very very serious, and the flu can be deadly even in healthy people
Trip to urgent care is where seventh grade teacher tara noel ended up after school tuesday. I have some cough, congestion im had it all weekend. Im teacher so im around kids and germs all day. Reporter she moved fast. Doctors say if you want to kick the flu or at least dramaly reduce its effects youve got treat it win 48 hours. We have anti virals that we give to patients in the form of a pill. What that does decreasing the severity of the disease in the patient but also decreases the communicable of the disease. Nurse practitioner amys patient case load at my Doc Urgent Care in center city is up their over the past few weeks which has been worst so this flu season. Were actually breaking records with more than 47,000 cases now reported in pennsylvania. 10,000 in new jersey. And 3,000 in delaware. Most patienting with a type a strain. Were seeing more a than b for sure. A is associated with. Avian flew h1n1. Its more severe symptoms. Reporter whats worse than getting the new . I have s
Very comfortable air because as we take a look at the dewpoints it is extremely oppressive especially philadelphia down to the south with those dewpoints back into the lower 70s. 75 in Sea Isle City is truly tropical air. 73 in wilmington and upper 60s in the Lehigh Valley. When you factor in those dewpoints with the air temperature it feels more like 91 in philadelphia, 92 in wilmington, 91 in millville lower 80s at the shore and on the verge of 90 degrees in berks county. As you look at double scan live radar we have upper level low pressure system between collateral ton and pittsburgh. Closer to the low is where the atmosphere can fuel itself with some of these downpours and thunderstorms. Theres one renegade one moving into Sussex County and most of them moving from the south to the north so its not pushing from the west to the east so what were going to go through here this evening and overnight and into tomorrow morning, some very spotty downpours or a quick thunderstorm. Best be