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Collected Item: “Baby born to Sacramento mother in ICU, on ventilator with COVID-19”

Give your story a title.

Baby born to Sacramento mother in ICU, on ventilator with COVID-19

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Text story, video available at website

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

A pregnant mother, and nurse, living in Sacramento, California contracts COVID-19 in her seventh month of pregnancy and delivers her third child. This news article captures some of the emotional struggles she went through from being diagnosed while pregnant and delivering her child. Through this woman’s story, we gain some insight into a mother’s experience of both being sick with COVID-19 and delivering a child during the pandemic.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

Sacramento, California, COVID-19, emotion, fear, recovery, children, mother, health

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/baby-born-to-sacramento-mother-on-ventilator-with-covid-19/103-5933e978-6d79-4b05-8c7c-1455b096ee25

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

ABC10 (news outlet)

Give this story a date.

2020-12-10
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