Damned if you get Covid, damned if you don’t

THE threat of Covid-19 is not as real to me as it is to other people. Unluckily, some of them know someone or of somebody who contracted the coronavirus and/or, even sadder, who were pronounced dead from it. Unluckier are the very ones who got infected, are currently experiencing symptoms or might possibly die from its complications. Despite the ever-increasing number of positively tested individuals in the Philippines, I thank God that neither myself nor any one of my family, close relatives and good friends have had or succumbed to this disease.

Yet, I only recently found out about a fraternal twin sister of a friend of mine who passed away not from Covid-19, but because of it. A few months back, she gave birth to a daughter and had a slight infection from her second Caesarean section. Her gynecologist gave her a prescription for antibiotics. As fate would have it, the consequence of her childbearing got worse that she, her husband and my friend went to several hospitals for her to be admitted.