An 11-month-old Texas girl who tested positive for the coronavirus needed to be airlifted 150 miles away due to hospital bed shortages. The baby, who tested positive for the coronavirus, was suffering seizures and had to be intubated, CNN reports.
A doctor stated that the baby was suffering seizures due to COVID-19. However, she had initially been brought to Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, which doesn’t have pediatric services, and no other major hospitals in the Houston area had beds available.
She was transported by an air ambulance to Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s Medical Center – Temple on Thursday, according to the report.
Thankfully, the baby has made “an amazing recovery,” Dominic Lucia, a pediatric emergency doctor and chief medical officer at the hospital, told CNN.
“She’s no longer requiring the breathing machine. She’s actually off that right now … and she’s actually resting with mom,” Lucia said. “She’s looking great.”
However, as the delta variant has become more prominent, the doctor cited a recent surge in cases, including among children.
“With the Delta variant we certainly are seeing just more infectivity across the population that includes kids, that includes infants as well,” Lucia said. “And with this particular surge we are seeing more kids that are symptomatic that test positive, more babies that are symptomatic and test positive.”
