Skip to main content

Christina Jewett of Kaiser Health News

Image
CINDY JOHNSON HOLDS A PAINTING OF HER HUSBAND, STEVEN, A RETIRED PHARMACIST WHO HAD SURVIVED COLON CANCER AND TOOK METICULOUS MEASURES TO AVOID CONTRACTING COVID-19. STEVEN DIED OF COVID IN DECEMBER 2020, AND CINDY BELIEVES HE CONTRACTED THE VIRUS AT BLAKE MEDICAL CENTER IN BRADENTON, FLORIDA, WHERE HE WAS ADMITTED FOR AN INFECTION IN HIS HIP./EVE EDELHEIT/KHN

Some Patients Went Into the Hospital for Care And Never Came Out After Contracting COVID

They went into hospitals with heart attacks, kidney failure or in a psychiatric crisis, and they left with COVID-19 — if they left at all.
Nov 4, 2021