GREENSBORO, N.C. — She told herself it was just pneumonia. She'd had it once before in college but this time she was nine months pregnant and her symptoms were getting worse.
"An elephant was sitting on my chest, that's how it felt," said Morgan Hooks.
The first time she went to the emergency room at Cone Health she said staff told her they didn't think she had coronavirus.
When she felt worse the next day, she went back and was admitted to the ICU.
Doctors suspected she had the virus.
No visitors, not even her fiance, were permitted.
Her vitals--other than low oxygen levels--were good. Her daughter was doing fine and she didn't think her birth was coming for a few more days.
"When my water broke in the middle of the night, I didn't know if I was gonna have her right then and there and him not be there for it," said Hooks.