As Hospitals Fear Being Overwhelmed By COVID-19, Do The Disabled Get The Same Access?
By Joseph Shapiro
December 14, 2020
On the morning of April 21, Sarah McSweeney woke up with a temperature of 103 degrees and it kept rising. Staff at her group home worried that the woman with multiple disabilities she couldn’t walk or speak words had contracted COVID-19. They got her into her bright pink wheelchair and hurried to the hospital, just a block down the street from the group home in Oregon City, Ore.
That afternoon, Heidi Barnett got a phone call from the doctor in the emergency room.
As Hospitals Fear Being Overwhelmed By COVID-19, Do The Disabled Get The Same Access?
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Kimberly Conger, Sarah McSweeney s nurse at her group home, shows a photo of McSweeney on her phone. She says McSweeney was outgoing and fun: She absolutely adored going into malls and getting her makeup done and getting her hair done.
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On the morning of April 21, Sarah McSweeney woke up with a temperature of 103 degrees and it kept rising. Staff at her group home worried that the woman with multiple disabilities she couldn t walk or speak words had contracted COVID-19. They got her into her bright pink wheelchair and hurried to the hospital, just a block down the street from the group home in Oregon City, Ore.
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