ST. PAUL, Minn. – Lisa Neuburger was caring for a patient with the coronavirus when the person's ventilator tube became detached.
As she worked to help the patient, she knew fluid from the person's lungs could be spraying into the air, possibly exposing her to the virus, despite the protective gear she was wearing.
That's when the 37-year-old nurse and mother got scared for her family. “I couldn’t sleep that night. I thought, ‘If I brought this home to my mom, she’s probably going to die, and it’s probably going to be my fault.’ So I had to find a different way,” Neuburger said.
To protect her family, Neuburger moved from her parents' home, where she had been living with her son after a recent divorce, and into a camper.