Freddy Fernandez sits with his fiancee, Vanessa Cruz, and their 8-month-old daughter, Mariana Fernandez, in their home in Carthage, Mo., last month. Freddy Fernandez almost wasn’t here, on his couch in his Missouri home, his baby on his lap gnawing on the pulse oximeter he uses to check his oxygen levels after a months-long bout with COVID-19. The 41-year-old father …
CNN — Every breath Robby Walker takes is one that almost didn’t happen. But “all the beds are taken up by Covid victims also getting ECMO treatment,” Susan Walker said at that time. Striking out after 169 hospitals in several states Ten days after Robby was intubated, a doctor told Susan her husband most likely “was not going to make …
