On Thursday, Ana Amira Rivera celebrated her first birthday. But earlier this month, her mom worried her baby girl wouldn’t make it.
Ava woke up one night in early August with a fever and seizures. Estefani Lopez rushed her to the emergency room, where her daughter stopped breathing, going limp in her arms. The otherwise healthy baby was diagnosed with COVID-19.
Doctors stabilized Ava and said she needed to get immediately to the ICU, but there were no beds. All pediatric ICUs in Houston were full. She was airlifted to the closest, 150 miles away in Temple, Texas.
"My heart sank to the floor,” said Lopez, 22. “I felt like I was going to lose my daughter before she even turns 1."..
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