First babies begin 2021 with joy and hope
Credit: Kettering Health
Credit: Kettering Health
The first baby of the new year in the Dayton area - Savannah Ann Curtiss - arrived at Kettering Medical Center at 12:12 a.m. weighing 7 pounds, 8 ounces. Savannah is the first child of Alexis Curtiss from Miamisburg.
She shares a birthday with her grandmother. Alexis Curtiss’ mother and Savannah’s grandmother, Mary Ann Fritts, were also born on Jan. 1.
“My mom was also a New Year’s baby and so this is actually kind of cool that my baby is also a New Year’s baby and they can share a birthday together and it’s kind of like a tradition,” Curtiss said in a video clip posted to Twitter by Kettering Health Network.
Stimulus payments arriving locally
Some Ohioans woke up today to find pending deposits of $600 in their bank accounts as federal stimulus payments started arriving.
The IRS and Treasury Department said a second round of economic impact payments - stimulus payments - would start being delivered as early as Tuesday, Dec. 29, and will continue to be distributed into next week.
The agencies said paper checks would be mailed out beginning Wednesday, Dec. 30.
The IRS said some recipients may see the direct deposit payments listed as pending or provisional in their accounts because of the official payment date of Jan 4.
4-month-old baby dies: ‘The puppy was just lying on her,’ 911 caller says
A 4-month-old girl died New Year’s Eve after she reportedly was injured by a dog in Dayton.
The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office identified the baby as Raelynn Larrison of Dayton. Her cause and manner of death have not yet been determined.
Crews were called around 7 p.m. to a home in the 20 block of South Findlay Street.
A 911 caller told a dispatcher that he found a dog on top of the baby, and that she was not breathing and was unconscious.
“She’s not breathing. My baby ain’t breathing,” a man told the dispatcher.
What to anticipate early 2021 with the pandemic
The news of a coronavirus vaccination brought a sigh of relief to many in 2020, but health professionals said some dark days are still ahead with, deaths, hospitalizations and cases still high.
In 2020, 8,962 Ohioans died from COVID-19 and that preliminary count will likely change as lagging data is reported, according to the Ohio Health Department. The number of deaths in the past two months has been staggering with 3,230 lives lost since Nov. 1.
The Dayton Daily News interviewed several health professionals on what they thought 2021 will bring related to the coronavirus. In the next months, they said we can expect to continue social distancing, prepare for a post-holiday surge in cases, and anticipate more people getting vaccinated in the early months of the year.
Father-son duo helping battle COVID-19 in same emergency rooms
Credit: CONTRIBUTED
Credit: CONTRIBUTED
Dr. Rick Marriott reads medical journals to his December-born daughter as he puts her to sleep.
His father, Dr. Randy Marriott, did the same thing 31 years ago and now both are working on the same hospital emergency room floors helping save lives and responding to the needs of COVID-19 patients during the pandemic.
“I’m extremely proud; there’s no way I couldn’t be,” said Randy about working with his son.
Both father and son are part of Miami Valley Emergency Specialists, which contracts to provide emergency room doctors to all Premier Health hospitals.
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