A few weeks ago Yanira Soriano, critically ill with COVID-19, was admitted to Northwell Health’s Southside Hospital in Suffolk County, NY.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 15, 2020
She was also 34 weeks pregnant.
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2/ Soriano was in such dire straits she was put into a medically induced coma and onto a ventilator.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 15, 2020
Doctors did not know if she would survive.
Doctors performed an emergency Caesarian section to save the baby. The baby boy was then transferred to a children’s hospital.
3/ After 11 days on the ventilator, Yanira Soriano began to recover and was taken off the machine.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 15, 2020
This afternoon she was greeted with applause from the hospital staff as she was wheeled out of the hospital. pic.twitter.com/4b3ai1VMax
4/ And then she got to meet Walter, her baby boy. pic.twitter.com/Ghc86S9npH
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 15, 2020
