BOSTON : The patient in Room 5 had one big thing going for her. She was young.Adriana Rice-Leiva, 31 years old and 7½ months pregnant, also had been in good health.
Even in a hospital bed, hooked to machines and deathly ill with Covid-19, her dark hair shined and her skin glowed.Ms. Rice-Leiva was breathing with a ventilator and kept still in a medically induced coma while her body fought the virus trying to kill her and her unborn baby. “She is going to make it, damn it," Dr.
Tracey Dechert said to herself each time she stopped by on rounds. “We’ve gotta get her through this."The pandemic walloped Massachusetts, filling intensive-care beds with patients hanging between life and death.