and across her tiny body. We were sitting on something more like a gurney than a bed, in an emergency room, where her skin shone with a blue-grayish hue. She had snot dripping from her nose, tears filling her swollen eyes — they were red, hollow. Her eyes were empty and pleading simultaneously, somehow. She was stable now, I kept reminding myself, trying to suppress the trauma of being a mother who had alreadyonce. She was stable, and she was going to stay with me now.
From the start of this pandemic, I’ve gritted my teeth and bit my tongue until it bled with frustration each time someone compared Covid-19 to the flu in an attempt to trivialize it. I’ve listened with anger as parents seemingly bragged about never vaccinating their children against influenza, spewing more disinformation and in turn being part of the problem. For whatever reason, my daughter is susceptible to the worst the flu has to offer.
As a state, we are also currently leading the nation in pediatric hospitalizations. South Florida children’s hospitals, like Joe DiMaggio in Miami-Dade, are reporting children on ventilators with a casualness that rips through my body like lightning whenever I see it reported.
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