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GROSSE POINTE PARK — A director of nurses and the wife of a local youth pastor, Kayla Dupree was pregnant with her fourth child — the first boy after three girls — when she caught COVID-19.
Thirty-five weeks pregnant, with severe symptoms and a high fever, her doctor sent Dupree, of Grosse Pointe Park, to Ascension St. John Hospital in Detroit on April 25. Doctors were concerned for the health of the baby and admitted her for observation, but when they did some routine bloodwork, they discovered that her platelets were extremely low. They continued to investigate, putting Dupree through several rounds of testing and a painful bone marrow test, before diagnosing her with acute myeloid leukemia.