A hospital nurse in New York who was on the frontlines treating coronavirus patients while pregnant is now fighting for her life; her family say insurance denied full coverage of her treatment following an emergency c-section and virus-related coma.
Sylvia LeRoy's family is asking the public for help after they say insurance denied full coverage of her rehabilitation treatment following an emergency c-section and virus-related coma. Your coronavirus questions answeredLeRoy was six months pregnant and working at Brookdale Hospital in mid-March when she first started feeling ill, but she initially brushed it off, her sister Shirley Licin told CNN's Anderson Cooper on"AC360.
"After what I can only say was the most awful number of seconds or minutes that it took, they said they found a pulse," Licin said.She was rushed to the operating room, and at just 30 weeks her daughter Esther was born, Licin said. Esther is doing well now, Licin said, but she was a little blue at birth. Her mother went eight minutes without oxygen to her brain and suffered and anoxic brain injury. The family cannot be with LeRoy as she is kept on life support.
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