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Adeline Fagan, 28, a second-year obstetrics/gynecology resident in a Houston hospital, died last week, 2 months after contracting COVID-19, her family reported.
The family posted on a GoFundMe page set up in her honor that, although she mostly delivered babies, Fagan was doing a rotation in the emergency department treating patients with COVID-19.
According to Fagan's family, flu-like symptoms began July 8 and within a week she was diagnosed with COVID-19 and hospitalized. She was given several respiratory therapies and medications, with no response. She was placed on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) on August 4.
Her father, Brant Fagan, posted on social media that on the evening of September 18 the family had called Adeline's hospital and gotten a good report, but half an hour later they got the news that a routine check had found she was unresponsive and it was discovered she had had a massive brain bleed. The family had to decide about a risky procedure to relieve the pressure.
"The neurosurgeon said it was a '1 in a million' chance she would even survive the procedure, but that Adeline would have several severe cognitive and sensory limitations if she did survive," Brant Fagan wrote.
