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Updated: 8:44 AM PST, January 27, 2021
Groups on Facebook have amassed thousands of members where posters talk about their journey with lingering symptoms and permanent damage due to their COVID-19 infections.
When Michele Finicle, 45, contracted COVID-19 in March, she assumed she had a sinus infection. She’s an Oregon teacher and had been regularly showing up for work at the school her 10-year-old daughter also attends. Her daughter was the first to fall ill. Two weeks later Finicle got sick as well.
“My daughter and I both made it through the acute infection. We were never hospitalized for the acute infection. So we thought we had made it,” Finicle told Inside Edition Digital.
TTUHSC begins second doses of COVID-19 vaccine
VIDEO: TTUHSC begins second doses of COVID-19 vaccine By Bailie Myers | January 26, 2021 at 11:11 AM CST - Updated January 26 at 12:09 PM
AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center began providing second doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine today.
The vaccinations are available to those who received their first dose at TTUHSC at least 28 days prior.
To be vaccinated, individuals must bring the vaccination card they received after their first dose.
TTUHSC representatives said no first doses of the vaccine are available at this time.
Members of the public who received their first dose at TTUHSC Jerry H Hodge School of Pharmacy are asked to get their second dose at the same location during the following dates and times:
Published Jan 26, 2021
The Dominican Sisters of Peace welcomed
Maria Tram Bui, 41, as a candidate on December 7, 2020, the vigil of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
Born in 1979 in Binh Gia, Vietnam, Tram and her family, including her eight siblings, immigrated to America in 1999. The family moved to Houston, TX, in 2005.
Tram earned a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX. She served as a full-time physical therapist in North Houston.
Tram was introduced to the Dominican Sisters of Peace by our Kentucky Sisters, where she also heard the call of God to become a healer through her career in physical therapy. After she returned to Texas to continue her education, Sr. Mary Vuong, a Texas Dominican Sister of Peace who ministers as a physical therapist, invited Tram to look again at her calling to religious life.
When Brittany Bankhead-Kendall received the Covid-19 vaccine in a beautiful executive boardroom at University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, the small jab finally gave her a dose of hope that she and her family would be safe. But she still knew that downstairs, patients were fighting for their lives and dying every day, relying on surgical tubes and ventilators just to breathe. “It’s a huge juxtaposition, and it’s a really precarious.