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Texas mom who gave coronavirus to unborn baby waited 20 days to hold her for first time: report - Fox News
Aug 14, 2020 33 secs

Wendy Figueroa was admitted to Parkland Hospital in Dallas on April 30 with symptoms of the coronavirus.

She tested positive, and two days later, her daughter Alexa was born, USA Today reported.

Within two days, doctors confirmed that Alexa had also tested positive for the virus.

Parkland Hospital in Dallas where Alexa was born with COVID-19. .

Mambarambath Jaleel, a medical director of the neonatal intensive care unit at Parkland Hospital, said Alexa was born premature and required oxygen but recovered from the virus without any complications.

Figueroa, meanwhile, spent six days in the hospital and another 14 days at home in quarantine.

She could not take her baby home until 20 days after she was born.

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