Coronavirus NYC: Pregnant nurse caring for COVID-19 patients contracts virus, goes into cardiac arrest
NewsColony Coronavirus NYC: Pregnant nurse caring for COVID-19 patients contracts virus, goes into cardiac arrest NEW YORK CITY — A pregnant nurse was taking care of novel coronaviru s patients in Brooklyn, until she got the virus herself. She then went on a ventilator and her heart stopped. Now, the woman who spent a career caring for patients is a patient who needs caring for full-time. Shirley Licin told our sister station Eyewitness News her sister has suffered the worst of COVID-19’s cruelty, its devastating twists and turns. Silvia Leroy, 35, first felt symptoms in mid-March. She was working at Brookdale Hospital in the labor and delivery unit, but it was hit hard from coronavirus at the start. “The hospital would not test them,” she said. “They’re not testing the doctors, they’re not testing the nurses even if they’re sick.” Leroy waited a week for her test, but by then she needed a ventilator. RELATED: Mom meets baby weeks after giving birth via emergency C-section, recov...