Monica Ramirez drove herself to the ER on a July afternoon. She was 30 weeks pregnant and she could not breathe.
She woke from a coma nearly 3 weeks later. In a different city. In a different hospital. Hooked up to a ventilator. And with her baby nearby. latimes.com/california/sto…
Emiliana was born July 13 — 10 weeks early, weighing 3 pounds, 6 ounces. She needed a ventilator for the first several days of her life. More than a month would pass before she felt her mother’s touch. She spent her first eight weeks in the neonatal ICU. latimes.com/california/sto…
Little is known about the impact of COVID-19 on women and the babies they carry. It is still not clear how a pregnant woman passes the virus on in the rare cases in which a baby has become infected. latimes.com/california/sto…
The day Ramirez delivered Emiliana, she was one of 19,502 people in San Bernardino County who had contracted COVID-19. (The county has now reported more than 61,000). latimes.com/projects/calif…
Of the 48 pregnant women who have been admitted to Loma Linda University Medical Center with COVID-19, 45 are Latina — an extreme snapshot of a disease that has infected and killed Latinos at a rate disproportionate to their share of the population. latimes.com/california/sto…
Reporter @marialaganga and photographer @francineorr spent some time with Ramirez and her new baby as well as other new moms who’ve given birth with COVID-19. Read more: latimes.com/california/sto…
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