Gabriela Acuna had already given the birth of a premature child and was placed on a ventilator and was in cardiac arrest when her family received the news this week.
A medevac helicopter arrived on the Las Vegas hospital where she was receiving treatment. The plan was to bring her to California to undergo the procedure of a double lung transplant--her best chance of recovering from the devastation from the virus she contracted while she was pregnant for 23 weeks.
The sister of Acuna, Paula Olmeda, says nurses told them the next time they'd get a call was the time the mother of two was up in the air in the air, awaiting the life-saving procedure.
However, when the next phone call came in and the family was informed that the flight was cancelled and the helicopter left without Acuna. The result was it was because Nevada Medicaid does not cover lung transplants. Liver and kidneys are covered, however, not the more expensive hearts or lungs.
"It changed from 'Your sister's about to be safe' to "Your sister is going to die' in just a couple minutes," Olmeda told The Daily Beast. "It was as if it was an absurd joke."
Acuna persevered with the same determination and determination she's demonstrated since being admitted at Centennial Hills Hospital on Aug. 30. This was the month in which there were 22 pregnant women nationwide died from COVID which was the most since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Olmeda claims Acuna was one of those 69 per cent of women who are pregnant who were not fully vaccine-free. Acuna was hesitant to receive the vaccine until she obtained the consent of her doctor. The appointment was scheduled to get the shot in during the week of Aug. 23rd, a few days before she was among 125,000 women in the womb to be negative for COVID. She was referred back to the emergency room two times prior to when her blood oxygen level decreased to the point where it was counted as being among 99 percent of pregnancies COVID patients in hospitals that were not vaccinated..
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