A Missouri mom hopes seeing the blood of her dead son dripping from a hospital room wall will help Americans take COVID-19 seriously.
Pitton Bumgarth was only 13-year-old when he died of the virus in October, as his mother – a nurse who was also infected – was watching.
The eighth-grader was diagnosed with coronavirus just six days ago, but it could get worse as his oxygen levels suddenly drop, his mom, Stephanie Frank, told The Sun.
As doctors at SSM Health Cardinal Glenn Children’s Hospital worked generously to save the life of an eighth-grade student, his mother said Payton began to hemorrhage.
“He had this big cough fit and he basically started to hemorrhage in his chest,” she said.
A doctor tried to put tubes in the boy’s throat to make his blood oxygen, as well as spraying fluids everywhere, coating the walls, medical equipment and the automaton itself, Frank said.
“I never thought it would happen,” Stephanie said.
“You kids don’t get COVID and that’s serious. I was shocked. I can’t describe that sudden catastrophic loss, “he added.
“I hope people take COVID more seriously and don’t say it’s a political agenda or some kind of fake news or it’s just like the flu.”
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