It was the winter of 2022. Keri-Sue took her son Micah to a hospital in New York six times, begging the doctors and nurses to help him. He was weak and dizzy, struggling to recover from an infection. You know which infection…
Yes, that one.
The staff told her to stop bringing him. They blamed Keri-Sue for causing her son unnecessary anxiety. It was making his condition worse, they said. They told her to calm down and have patience. Her son would get better on his own, with some antibiotics or a little allergy medicine. The receptionist even started chiding her. “I knew you’d call. You call here every day!” Doctors refused to run more tests. One of them even said, “Kids are not getting Long Covid.”
On her sixth visit, the hospital finally admitted them overnight. Doctors and nurses spent most of the time insisting her son would be fine, even after tests revealed that he had an enlarged heart and clots in his liver. They refused to start treatment with bloo…