By GINA KAUFMAN, ELISHA ANDERSON AND KRISTI TANNER | Detroit Free Press | Published: December 18, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. DETROIT (Tribune News Service) The sound of oxygen hissed as she stared into the camera on her phone and started recording. “I’m going to make this short and sweet,” Monique Baldridge announced from the hospital. As she had during her other Facebook Live dispatches using them to express her love and vowing never to give up Monique updated her condition, which was deteriorating. It was March 23, 2020, her sixth day in the hospital. Messages of prayers and well-wishes poured in. Monique said she was having difficulty talking.