COVID-Ravaged Mom of Newborn Denied Lung Transplant: ‘How Cruel Is That?’

Family HandoutGabriela Acuna had already given birth to a premature infant, been put on a ventilator, and gone into cardiac arrest when her family got the call last week.A medevac helicopter had landed at the Las Vegas hospital where she was being treated to take her to California for a double lung transplant—her best chance for recovering from the ravages of the virus she contracted when she was 23 weeks pregnant.Acuna’s sister, Paula Olmeda, says the nurse told them the next call they got woul

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