COVID-19.“We got married in COVID last year. We had 13 people and were supposed to have 180,” McVeigh said.One thing she didn’t expect, when she learned she was pregnant, was how those sacrifices would continue, a year and a half into the pandemic.Like so many expecting parents, her husband Tim has been told he is not welcome to attend ultrasound appointments at their medical imaging clinic.“Not having him there with me, I was really upset.
It’s supposed to be a really enjoyable time, and if something was wrong I would have to do it alone,” McVeigh said. “It’s unfair, as a father to be basically left behind, he’s being treated second class, and it’s just not fair.” Support people with COVID-19 allowed to accompany patients giving birth at.