A Washington woman woke up as a new mom after being in a medically induced coma because of her coronavirus diagnosis. Angela Primachenko, 27, was in a coma for a week and came back into consciousness on April 6.
When she woke up, she had a newborn baby girl in lieu of a pregnant belly, she told the Today show. “I just woke up and all of a sudden I didn’t have my belly anymore,” she said. “It was just extremely mind-blowing.” Primachenko, a respiratory therapist, lives in Washington state.
The first U.S. case of the novel coronavirus was announced on Jan. 21. She got tested for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, after developing a cough and fever 33 weeks into her pregnancy, CNN reports.