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.
“I didn’t know if he was going to make it or not,” Jackson said. “I was very emotional and just very upset.” Adrian James, 2, who tested positive for the coronavirus disease and is on a ventilator, receives treatment at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, US, October 5, 2021.Over the past couple of days, his lungs have been able to do more of the work of breathing, and it is possible that he may be removed from the ventilator soon.
At the hospital, doctors and nurses wearing masks, face shields and protective gowns sedated him and put him on a breathing tube attached to a ventilator in the intensive care unit.Jackson doesn't know how her boy contracted the virus. She had Covid-19 last summer; no-one else in the family caught it at that time.
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