Two-year-old boy fights for his life in ICU after catching coronavirus in the US

Intubated and sedated to help calm him, two-year-old Adrian James fights for his life in an Illinois hospital. USA, after catching the lethal Delta variant of the coronavirus.

As he pointed out to Reuters Tiffany Jackson, the child’s mother, took him to an emergency room in the city of Mt. Vernon on Friday, after the little boy had trouble breathing and was sweating too much.

Doctors performed a chest X-ray and cleaned it to detect coronavirus. It was there that he was rushed to Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, about 80 miles away.

Adrian, who will turn three next month, had developed pneumonia in his left lung. “I was breathing fast, trying to swallow air at 76 breaths per minute, almost twice the normal 40”Jackson told the international media.

According to Reuters, according to statistics from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from USA, Adrian is one of the nearly 840,000 children under the age of four who contracted coronavirus in that country. To date, vaccines against this virus have not been approved for young children.

The boy’s lungs have improved in recent days and he may soon be removed from the ventilator he’s attached to, Reuters noted.

The United States passed the milestone of 700,000 deaths from coronavirus last week, according to data from the CDC, and concern is growing about the number of infections among children.

Adrian’s mother does not know how her son contracted the virus. She is not vaccinated against COVID-19 because you have a rare autoimmune disorder called syndrome Guillain Barre who contracted as a result of a flu vaccine when he was 16 years old.

Adrian’s father, who is at home with his other son, has only received the first dose of the vaccine. He also does not know how he could have contracted the virus because he pointed out that at work everyone complies with the mandatory health protocol.

Tiffany Jackson, 21, is deeply grateful for the care her son has received. You are beginning to believe that your life will be saved. “I just want people to realize that it is serious.”, he sentenced.

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