A 30-year-old teacher's Covid-19 death tells us volumes (cnn.com)
(CNN)Last month, Covid-19 claimed the life of a 30-year-old Brooklyn schoolteacher named Rana Zoe Mungin. After weeks on life support, she died on April 27.
Her story has sparked widespread outrage in the media and beyond. It is one of systemic failures and missed opportunities, and all the more shocking because of her youth and promise. Mungin's sister told reporters that over the course of six days in March, Mungin went to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center three times with worsening symptoms. On the first two trips, she was refused testing despite having standard Covid-19 symptoms, including fever and shortness of breath. Her sister told CNN she believes this was due to the limited resources at the hospital and the fact that Mungin's oxygen saturation was still good. During her first hospital visit, Mungin was treated for asthma and given medicine for her headache before she went home. When she called an ambulance a few days later and was taken back to the hospital, one attendant speculated she was having a panic attack, her sister said.
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