Texas mom who transmitted COVID-19 to her unborn baby girl waited 20 days to cradle ...
(WorldNews Health)

Wendy Figueroa turned over on her bed to look at the empty crib and began to cry. She cried every night for 20 days straight after giving birth to her daughter, Alexa. Her newborn remained at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, fighting off a SARS-CoV-2 infection her mother transmitted to her while she was in the womb – one of the first such cases to be recorded in the United States. Wendy was admitted to the hospital with a fever, headache and gastrointestinal symptoms April 30, and tested positive for COVID-19. Two days later, baby Alexa was born. “They showed her to me from a distance and then took her away,” she said. “It’s hard to carry a baby for nine months and...