The Children of COVID
Updated on Mar 12, 2021;
Published on Mar 09, 2021
Pamela Addison kisses her son Graeme, 14 months, as her daughter Elsie, 2, looks up to the heavens while they play in their Waldwick backyard. Pamela Addison s husband, Martin, 44, died in April from COVID-19. Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media
Little Elsie Addison watched through the window as the ambulance took her daddy away.
The 2-year-old with bright blue eyes and her father’s electric smile had been blissfully unaware of the coronavirus pandemic. She just knew her daddy was sick.
“Papa coughing,” Elsie would say in her sweet toddler voice as her father isolated in his bedroom.
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It’s a nightmare. You develop a fever, lose your sense of taste and smell, and then test positive for COVID-19. You worry you may become short of breath, suffer alone in a hospital room, require a ventilator to breathe. You know there is no cure.
Since November, however, hospitals have offered hope to those at high risk of severe illness from COVID-19. It’s an infusion of monoclonal antibodies an experimental treatment that has kept more than 95% of those who received it out of the hospital.
During a still out-of-control pandemic, that helps to save health care resources such as hospital beds, oxygen and personal protective gear.