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A baby was born midflight over the Pacific. A viral TikTok video captured the scene and first cries.
It was already an eventful day for friends Julia Hansen, 23, and Siearra Rowlan, also 23, before they boarded their flight from Salt Lake City to Honolulu. After arriving at the airport, they were informed their flight was delayed four hours, plus TSA confiscated a sealed jar of mayonnaise they had packed in their carry-on bag.
But nothing topped what happened halfway through their Delta flight to Hawaii.
Somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, a passenger gave birth to a baby boy – although it wasn’t known to Hansen and Rowlan immediately.
Hansen was dozing off when Rowlan first heard flight attendants calmly asking if someone on board was a doctor.
“Everybody’s kind of turning back to see what’s happening, and then there’s a lot of shuffling between flight attendants,” Rowlan says. “The speaker goes on and off like they’re about to announce something but they don’t. Then there’s a little baby crying.”
In her now-viral TikTok video, Hansen captured parts of the commotion – from the overhead announcement informing passengers of the birth; to an eruption of applause for the mother; to a crew of EMTs boarding to provide medical assistance to the mother upon landing.
Passengers applaud once again as the mother makes her way off the plane in a wheelchair, crying newborn in tow. (Hansen omitted footage of the family’s faces to respect their privacy.)
Delta confirmed that a baby was born on the flight from Salt Lake City to Honolulu on Wednesday. A doctor and nurses on the flight responded to a call for medical professionals. No other information about the birth or the baby’s family was available Friday.
Several commenters wondered why the passenger was allowed to board if she was anywhere near her due date. Delta does not prohibit pregnant travelers.
“At Delta, we don’t impose restrictions on flying if you’re pregnant and don’t require a medical certificate for you to travel,” the airline says on its website. “If you’re traveling after your eighth month, it’s a good idea to check with your doctor to be sure travel is not restricted.”
Aside from comments such as, “She just saved $20k in hospital bills,” and “The only time it’s okay to clap when the plane lands,” many viewers wondered about what such a unique delivery would mean for the baby’s birth certificate.
According to the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual, “a U.S.-registered aircraft outside U.S. airspace is not considered to be part of U.S. territory,” and “a child born on such an aircraft outside U.S. airspace does not acquire U.S. citizenship by reason of the place of birth.” But if a child is born over U.S. airspace, they would be granted U.S. citizenship.
A representative from the Los Angeles County Department of Health Vital Records Office says the parents would need to register for the baby’s birth certificate in the county where the plane was passing. Other experts have said families should take birth certificate issues up in the state where they land.
“If a birth occurred en route, that is in a moving conveyance (e.g., an airplane) the place of birth becomes where the newborn was first removed from the conveyance, or in this instance, the airplane,” said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spokesman Scott Pauley in an email.
Once the plane landed, passengers waited for the mother to be escorted off by wheelchair first, then resumed disembarking normally like the miracle of life didn’t just unfold in their midst.
“It really didn’t take much time at all,” Hansen says. “After she had gotten out, everyone just kind of got up, got their carry-on and left.”
Rowlan adds, “It was so casual . . . but one kid was like, ‘This is like from a movie scene!”
Published : May 01, 2021
By : The Washington Post · Natalie B. Compton, Hannah Sampson
Indias coronavirus surge creates vaccine supply turmoil far beyond its borders
As coronavirus cases surged this month in India, the country that houses the worlds largest vaccine manufacturer, the government began to pause vaccine exports.
Shipments ground to a halt by mid-April. Now, with domestic need for vaccine in India overwhelming capacity and program extending to adults over 18 this weekend, it is not clear when India will begin exporting doses again.
The suspension of exports in April has contributed to a 90 million-dose shortfall for Covax, an international vaccine distribution effort, one of the group’s key backers said Friday. That number will only grow in May if restrictions are not lifted.
The limited supply would be a particularly big blow for low-income nations, many of which not only sought India-produced AstraZeneca through Covax but also pursued bilateral deals with Serum Institute of India, the Pune-based vaccine giant.
Arindam Bagchi, a spokesman for India’s Foreign Ministry, said Friday there was “no update” on when vaccine exports would resume.
Andrea Taylor, a researcher at Duke University’s Global Health Innovation Center who leads a team tracking vaccine deals and distribution, said continuing delays in Indian exports would be “devastating” for the poorer nations, adding that Covax would probably meet only a fraction of its distribution goals for May.
“There is no contingency plan or alternate supplier for the next few months,” Taylor said.
The Indian government has faced criticism for exporting millions of doses abroad before it secured enough doses for its population of 1.36 billion. Despite new case numbers that set global records and a death toll of over 200,000, less than 1 in 10 Indians have received a dose.
Even with export controls, vaccination sites in India have complained of severe problems with supply. On Thursday, Mumbai announced it would close vaccination sites in the city center until Sunday after running out of doses.
Outside India, the profound impact of the export ban suggests other manufacturing options are needed, said Thomas Bollyky, a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations.
“The Serum Institute of India is a terrific contract manufacturer of vaccines,” he said. “It is not sufficient to meet global needs.”
In a statement, Gavi, a vaccine alliance that backs Covax, said further delays in May would be a “significant short-term challenge” for Covax.
In total, 49 million doses had been distributed through Covax, of which 29 million were from Serum, the statement said.
Officials from the African Union, which also arranged supplies from Serum, have expressed alarm, with top health official John Nkengasong saying this month that the export controls could be “catastrophic” for the continent.
Nkengasong, who heads the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said this week that what was happening in India could eventually happen in Africa. “We are living in a world that is extremely uncertain now,” he told reporters in Nairobi on Thursday.
According to data collected by the Indian government, exports of vaccine have slowed to a stop. India exported over 28 million doses in March, up from 17 million in February, with most doses coming from Serum.
That number declined steeply in April to less than 1.9 million. No vaccine has been exported since April 16, according to the Indian data.
India initially portrayed the export restrictions as a temporary measure. V.K. Paul, a top health official and co-chair of India’s vaccine distribution group, said in an interview in early April that the restrictions were not a “scaling down” but a “slowing down” that would be resolved within weeks.
But with new cases in India still soaring – reaching another global record of 386,452 on Friday, with the total death toll over 200,000 – it was not clear when exports would resume.
In a bid to beat back infection rates, anyone over 18 will be eligible for vaccinations across India starting Saturday. Several Indian states have said they do not have enough supplies for the large expansion of eligibility.
Serum has said it is able to produce between 60 million and 70 million doses per month. Bharat Biotech, another Indian company that has developed a vaccine called Covaxin, is producing 10 million per month.
Adar Poonawalla, Serum’s chief executive, has blamed the slow pace of vaccine production in India on U.S. export controls on raw materials, calling on President Biden to “truly unite in beating this virus” in a tweet this month.
International organizations, including Gavi and others, have also called on countries to lift restrictions on exports and release excess doses.
The United States has pledged to share its supplies of AstraZeneca, not yet approved domestically, with foreign nations. Twenty million doses are expected to go to India. The Indian government has also reached an agreement to obtain 5 million doses of Sputnik V, a Russian-backed vaccine.
Such deals will be too little, too late to stop the immediate spread of the virus. It will take weeks, if not longer, to obtain and distribute the doses. AstraZeneca, like Sputnik and Covaxin, does not confer immunity immediately and requires two doses.
“There’s no way to vaccinate your way out of this surge,” Bollyky said. In the short term, he added, treatment and social distancing policies may be more important.
There are concerns that other countries may be on the same path as India. Nepal, India’s smaller neighbor facing its own surge, received only half of its order from Serum before India’s export restriction. Less than one-tenth of its population has received a dose, and it is now seeking more supplies from Russia and China.
“For the next India, we need to be ahead of it, not behind it,” Bollyky said.
He mentored decades of Army Rangers. At 94, hell receive the Medal of Honor.
WASHINGTON – Shivering in freezing temperatures, about 50 U.S. soldiers braced for the worst. Hundreds of Chinese soldiers were about to launch a series of bloody attacks on the hill the Americans had just taken under fire, and no reinforcements were within a mile.
Retired U.S. Army Col. Ralph Puckett stands alongside troops as they prepare to start a foot march during the 2021 David E. Grange Jr. Best Ranger Competition at Fort Benning, Ga., on April 16.
CREDIT: U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Henry Villarama
The clash that then-1st Lt. Ralph Puckett and his soldiers experienced that night on “Hill 205” came at the outset of the Battle of the Chongchon River, a pivotal moment in which senior U.S. commanders were surprised by China’s full-scale entry into the Korean War.
Thousands of U.S. soldiers died in following days as they withdrew hundreds of miles back into South Korea in what the Army now describes as the longest retreat in U.S. military history.
Puckett, who commanded the Eighth Army Ranger Company, was wounded by a hand grenade in the first attack on the hill on Nov. 25, 1950, but stayed in command. American and South Korean soldiers absorbed five more chaotic, armed assaults through the night before Puckett ordered his soldiers to withdraw the following morning as the Chinese threatened to overrun them.
“I had been wounded three times by then, and I was lying there in my foxhole unable to do anything,” Puckett would later recall for an oral history project. “I could see three Chinese about 15 yards away from me, and they were bayoneting or shooting some of my wounded Rangers who were in the foxholes.”
More than 70 years later, Puckett, 94, will receive the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for valor in combat, for his actions. President Joe Biden called Puckett at home in Columbus, Ga., on Friday to inform him of his decision to approve the award, said John Lock, a retired Army officer who began petitioning the Army for reconsideration of Puckett’s actions in 2003.
The Army credits Puckett with leading his soldiers across an open field to take the hill under intense fire, braving enemy fire repeatedly to check on his soldiers after he was wounded the first time, and directing “danger close” artillery strikes near his own position to ward off advancing Chinese soldiers.
Puckett has said he told his soldiers to leave him behind after he was incapacitated, but two privates first class, Billy Walls and David Pollock, carried him to safety.
Puckett would go on to earn the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation’s second-highest award for valor in combat, for his actions in the battle. The recognition came near the outset of a 22-year career that also included a second Distinguished Service Cross and two Silver Stars for valor in Vietnam. Puckett was awarded five Purple Hearts for injuries suffered in combat and two Bronze Star Medals with the V device for valor.
With an upgrade to the Medal of Honor, Puckett will be one of the most highly decorated service members for valor in U.S. military history, Lock said.
Among those who assisted in Puckett’s case were Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who contacted the Army on Puckett’s behalf a few months before dying of cancer in 2018, and retired Gens. Joseph Votel and Stanley McChrystal, who know Puckett through their mutual service as Rangers, according to documents that Lock provided to The Washington Post.
“Then First Lieutenant Puckett’s actions on Hill 205 in 1950 exemplified personal bravery beyond the call of duty, risking his own life as he drew enemy fire so his men could locate, engage, and destroy an enemy machine-gun nest and kill a sniper,” Votel wrote in a 2018 letter to Army officials in support of Puckett’s nomination.
Puckett’s wife, Jean, said in a phone interview that the family hopes to visit the White House for a ceremony. Considering her husband’s advancing age and some health problems, she expressed concern about how long it was taking.
“He is not the one who has been pushing it. It has been John and our immediate family, who want him to be able to receive it personally if he is going to be awarded that medal,” she said, referring to Lock. “He felt the Distinguished Service Cross was honor enough.”
For years, Puckett has been a spiritual and cultural leader of sorts for the 75th Ranger Regiment, the elite fighting force that specializes in raids, airfield seizures and other difficult missions in combat. As an “honorary colonel” for the regiment, he traveled overseas in his 80s with U.S. commanders, including to Iraq and Afghanistan, and regularly met with soldiers at Fort Benning, Ga., the home of both the Ranger Regiment and much of Ranger School.
Votel, who retired as chief of U.S. Central Command in 2019, was commander of 1st Ranger Battalion when he got to know Puckett during an exercise in South Korea. Puckett shared details about his experiences fighting in the Korean War, connecting to the soldiers with his “down-to-earthiness,” he said.
“He’s a very noble individual He adds a level of dignity, a level of stalwartness, to everything that he is a part of,” Votel said in an interview. “He’s just really a revered figure in the Ranger Regiment.”
Puckett, who was born in Tifton, Ga., retired from the Army in 1971 and settled near Fort Benning after retiring as a civilian in the 1990s. His wife said they met there in a hospital decades earlier as Puckett was healing from the wounds he suffered in North Korea.
More recently, Puckett said he supported women serving in combat units. He said during an interview with The Washington Post in 2015 that he believed some could meet the standards and wanted to see them do it. His granddaughter, an Army captain, is now preparing to become an artillery officer, Jean Puckett said.
Puckett recently made an appearance this month at the Best Ranger Competition, in which two-person teams of soldiers compete in an event stretching over 2.5 days.
“Thank you for being what you are and doing what you’re doing,” Puckett said in remarks captured and posted online by the Army. “You set the standard for the Army. You set the standard for the Rangers. You set the standard for all of us.”
Johnny Crawford, who became a child star as the son of The Rifleman, dies at 75
Johnny Crawford, who reigned as one of televisions most popular young actors while starring as Chuck Connorss sensitive son on “The Rifleman,” then parlayed his screen success into a string of Top 40 hits as a teenage crooner in the early 1960s, died April 29 at an assisted-living home in the Sun Valley section of Los Angeles. He was 75.
He had Alzheimer’s disease, said his wife, Charlotte McKenna-Crawford, and was in declining health after being hospitalized last year for covid-19 and pneumonia.
Crawford was 9 when he began performing on national television, appearing on “The Mickey Mouse Club” in 1955 as one of two dozen original Mouseketeers. Wearing mouse ears and matching white shirts, he and his castmates charmed an audience of adolescent baby boomers while singing and dancing between serials and educational segments. Episodes began with a roll call and ended with a farewell song: “Now it’s time to say goodbye / to all our company.”
After the first season ended, Crawford was cut from the show. He suspected it was because he kept getting distracted while learning his dance steps, focusing instead on fellow Mouseketeer Annette Funicello. “That really broke my heart. . . . I was a has-been at nine,” he told an interviewer in 1982. “I told my agent that I would have worked at Disney’s for nothing. That’s when she told me that I was working for them for nothing.”
Yet he soon began appearing on episodes of “The Lone Ranger” and other shows, paving the way for his work on “The Rifleman.” Running from 1958 to 1963 on ABC and then for decades in syndication, the western starred Connors as Lucas McCain, a sharpshooting Civil War veteran and widower looking after his son, Mark, who shouts for “Pa” whenever trouble appears at their New Mexico ranch.
The two actors maintained a close relationship off-screen, with Connors sharing stories from his short career as a pro baseball player and teaching Crawford how to hold a bat and run the bases. “He tried to be a good influence for me, even off-camera,” Crawford recalled. “And he treated me like an adult when we were working. He made it much easier than it might have been.”
Crawford was 13 when he earned an Emmy nomination in 1959, losing in the best supporting actor (drama) category to Dennis Weaver of “Gunsmoke.” That same year, two of his family members received nominations as well: his older brother, fellow child actor Robert Crawford Jr., for an episode of “Playhouse 90”; and his father, Robert Crawford, for editing “The Bob Cummings Show.”
Crawford had grown up in a musical family, with one grandfather who worked as a music publisher and another, from Belgium, who played the violin and rose to become concertmaster of the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics. Nursing musical ambitions of his own, he signed with Del-Fi Records in 1961 and recorded Top 40 hits such as “Rumors,” “Proud” and the Pinocchio-inspired “Your Nose Is Gonna Grow,” about asking a girl why she was “holding another boy tight.”
In 1962, his song “Cindy’s Birthday” reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Crawford promoted his music career by occasionally singing on “The Rifleman,” even as he started learning rodeo techniques from cast and crew members. “Some of those extras were really good ropers,” his wife said in a phone interview. For about a decade, he competed in rodeo events such as calf roping, steer wrestling and bull and bronc riding, while appearing in film, television and stage roles.
He later traded his Stetson and blue jeans for a top hat and tuxedo, reinventing himself as the leader of the Johnny Crawford Dance Orchestra, which performed music from the 1920s and ’30s in period style. Formed in 1992, the group played at weddings, parties and charity balls across Southern California, including for a group of Hollywood A-listers at the Cicada swing-dance club in 2000.
“There were only about 50 people there, and they were all enjoying the band, and almost all were dancing,” Crawford later told the Wall Street Journal. “One fellow was standing off to the side watching for the longest time; it was Dustin Hoffman. He loved it. He said it reminded him of when he was a little boy and his parents took him to see Ted Lewis. Martin Short was a riot. He said, ‘I wanna sing with Johnny Crawford!’ “
John Ernest Crawford was born in Los Angeles on March 26, 1946. Both parents were occasional actors, and his mother was also a concert pianist. The family’s home was filled with old records, and by the time Crawford auditioned for “The Mickey Mouse Club” he had learned 1920s songs such as “Charley, My Boy” and “Mean to Me.”
Rather than sing a popular standard, he auditioned by performing a tap-dance routine and fencing with his brother. He said he secured a spot as a Mouseketeer by imitating singer Johnnie Ray, performing the song “Cry.”
Crawford later played a Native American in the adventure film “Indian Paint” (1965), appeared with Kim Darby in “The Restless Ones” (1965) and was shot by John Wayne in the western “El Dorado” (1966). He served two years in the Army and starred in the Oscar-winning short film “The Resurrection of Broncho Billy” (1970).
He also appeared on shows including “Hawaii Five-O,” “Little House on the Prairie” and “Murder, She Wrote” and starred opposite Victoria Principal in “The Naked Ape” (1973), a comedy from executive producer Hugh Hefner. The two men became close friends – Crawford “was a regular at the Playboy Mansion for 30 years,” his wife said – and bonded over their shared love of music.
Crawford said he had been trying to write folk music when Hefner played him an album of Bing Crosby songs from the ’20s. “That was it,” he recalled in a 2000 interview with the Journal. “I decided to start singing folk songs from Tin Pan Alley instead of from Oklahoma.”
In 1995, he married Charlotte McKenna, his high school sweetheart. In addition to his wife, of Los Angeles, survivors include two stepdaughters, Brenda Westenhaver of Denison, Texas, and Jamie Pierce of Rapid City, S.D.; a brother; and a sister.
Crawford sang with Vince Giordano’s dance orchestra in New York before starting his own group in Los Angeles, and sometimes drew on his rodeo experience to perform rope tricks onstage. Leading the orchestra was his “favorite role,” he said. “These songs have wonderful dialogue. It’s like getting to do Shakespeare. It’s the best acting assignment I’ve ever had.”
And, he added, “I pay myself better than any other producer I’ve ever worked for.”
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