Few people know what it's like inside a pediatric COVID ward because of privacy protections and the need to isolate patients. However, we were able to spend time, with many precautions, in the ICU at Seattle Children's Hospital. Here's what we saw.
But when it's not, it can be downright scary.
Typically a little dynamo who loves to climb furniture and catapult herself across the room, Bonnie became lethargic and unresponsive as COVID tore through her family. “I was diagnosed on New Year’s Day and I got pretty bad — I couldn’t get out of bed, couldn’t walk, had a hard time breathing, I was dizzy,” Wesley, a mom of five, told TODAY. “The rest of the kids started getting it one day after another … and then Bonnie, she started just sleeping. She wasn’t really waking up. She’d come out to get a drink or two, but she wouldn’t even eat. She would go right back to sleep.
Cassandra Wesley, an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation, holds up a photo she took of her daughter Bonnie while in strict isolation at Seattle Children’s Hospital.On a weekday in late January, McGuire led a rare tour of the normally locked-down COVID wings at Seattle Children’s Hospital for TODAY Parents. He wanted to do it because he wanted other parents to see what he’s been seeing.
Wearing a controlled air purifying respirator, Dr. John K. McGuire prepares to enter a patient’s room at at Seattle Children’s Hospital on Jan. 28, 2022.Seattle children's charge nurse Julia Smock “Young ones under 2 to 3 months come in with dehydration and not eating and vomiting as their main symptoms,” McGuire said. “Some of the kids have been under a month of age — which is really scary for families with newborns.”
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