A Covid-19 mother who gave birth while on a ventilator has died never having met her newborn daughter and despite her husband's pleas for better care. Aurora Chacon Esparza, 35, was being treated at the North Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn Center after displaying symptoms of coronavirus. North Memorial Hospital is not an ECMO center, however, and all requests to be transferred to another hospital for treatment were denied. But Esparaza's own condition continued to deteriorate and North Memorial Hospital tried to get her transferred in order to receive the ECMO machine treatment. Esparza died without having met her newborn daughter.

Source: Daily Mail July 21, 2020 09:21 UTC