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Joshua Garza had a chance to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in January but he passed it up, thinking he didn't really need it. Now, the 43-year-old Texan is hoping to inspire others to get the shot after he became so ill following his COVID-19 diagnosis that he needed a rare double lung transplant to survive. "COVID ended up attacking my lungs," Garza, of Sugarland, told ABC News. After testing positive for COVID-19 in late January, Garza's health deteriorated rapidly. On Feb. 2, when he ended up falling while trying to walk, his wife called for an ambulance to take him...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) -- The Orange County Coroner's office is investigating the death of a woman who died just days after she received her second dose of the Moderna vaccine. The family says the grandmother was healthy before she got her shot, and that her sudden death came as a shock. A conversation with staff at the Orange County Coroner's office about Griselda Flores' death, raised red flags for her son Richard Cardenas and the family. "They made it seem like this was not the first call that they had," Cardenas said. Assistant Chief Deputy Coroner Brad Olsen says...

Doctors are being told to look out for signs of a stroke following the Oxford jab after three patients were admitted to hospital and one died. Two women in their 30s and a man in his 40s suffered clots in their arteries after recently having the vaccine, which led to ischaemic strokes. While previous reports of rare blood clots have specifically involved cerebral venous thrombosis – veins in the brain – this is the first time the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has been linked to ischaemic strokes. It is the most common type of stroke and occurs when blood clots form and...