After receiving a double lung transplant in 2021, Michelle Shoaf spent the last year training for her first 5k. She ran her 5k in the Fox Cities Marathon.
When Cullman's Jason McCollum recovered from two months on the ventilator fighting COVID-19, he was then told he would need a double lung transplant to survive, confining him to the hospital until that life-changing call comes.
don t build rome overnight, you can t solve this gasoline price problem overnight either it s going to take some time. in the meantime we will all be paying dearly. thank you so much for being with us. my pleasure. a life-threatening lung condition kept her attached to an oxygen tank even when performing on stage in today s the human factor meet a singer-songwriter beating the odds and hoping to inspire others facing medical challenges. i was having that dream life singer-songwriter performer, i was recording all the time and then this whole thing just happened. i m chloe, i m a singer and a songwriter and i received a life-saving double lung transplant. pulmonary hypertension is hype in the areas of the lung, makes your heart work too hard and eventually it fails. i was told by one of the nurses you will have to be on oxygen for the rest of your life? i was like i can t be on oxygen, i m a singer and performer. the idea always for me was i m
sponsored by joe manchin, and jim justice, and visited on the people of west virginia. whether you are white, or black, or native, or brown, it affects all of it. and it is these i m sorry. i m trying to get a lot of information and. i really appreciate you. this is how, if we are going to win this climate fight, we will win it with local struggles like this. with regular folks like us. fighting what our kids are breathing, what our kids are going to the hospital with asthma attacks, i was with a man today, seven years ago he had a double lung transplant. what do you think he feels like living in the same county as a factory that burns a natural gas, and coal, to melt rock,
deaths remain low in comparison to the case counts. reporter: not only are more people getting covid, more are being infected for a second time. researchers in england spoke with 3,500 covid-positive people this month two-thirds reported having either a suspected or confirmed case before. here in new york, about 80% of reported reinfections have been during the omicron wave they re also up in minnesota and washington state, but notably some 60% of so-called second-timers there were unvaccinated. in illinois, brian kuhns first got covid in march of 2020 he spent weeks on a ventilator and later underwent a double lung transplant. they told me that if i got it again, i would die. so i was very afraid. reporter: even though he was vaccinated this month, he did test positive again. this time it was much easier. i actually didn t have too many symptoms until after i knew i had it. reporter: doctors say omicron may have mutated so much that even those who are vaccinated might get