When her two-year-old started feeling sick early last week, Tiffany Jackson didn't think it might be COVID-19.
No one else in the family was sick. Adrian James just had a bit of a cough.
She gave him cough syrup and put a humidifier in his room reut.rs/3BhAqwJ 1/4
No one else in the family was sick. Adrian James just had a bit of a cough.
She gave him cough syrup and put a humidifier in his room reut.rs/3BhAqwJ 1/4
But by Friday he was sweaty, and his breathing was labored.
Jackson took him to an emergency room in her small town of Mt. Vernon, Illinois 2/4
Jackson took him to an emergency room in her small town of Mt. Vernon, Illinois 2/4
Doctors and nurses there did a chest X-ray and swabbed him for COVID - and then airlifted the child to Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, about 80 miles away 3/4
Jackson followed in a car, her grandmother at the wheel.
Her boy is one of nearly 840,000 children under the age of four to contract COVID-19 in the United States, according to statistics from the U.S. CDC reut.rs/3BhAqwJ 4/4
Her boy is one of nearly 840,000 children under the age of four to contract COVID-19 in the United States, according to statistics from the U.S. CDC reut.rs/3BhAqwJ 4/4
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