Immigrant Mother And Family Suffer With COVID-19 As Teacher Cares For Their Healthy Newborn

STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT - MAY 1: Elementary school teacher Luciana Lira feeds one-month-old Neysel at her home on May 1, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. Lira, a K-5 Bilingual /ESL teacher at Hart Magnet Elementary in Stamford, became Neysel's temporary guardian after the boy's mother Zully, almost 8 months pregnant, went to the Stamford Hospital emergency room, gravely ill with COVID-19 and gave birth. Hospital staff performed an emergency C-section to save the child and Zully was put on a ventilator. Her baby, Neysel could not go home, as his father Marvin and brother Junior were COVID-19 positive and quarantined there. After several weeks in the hospital, Zully responded well to antibody blood plasma transfusions and was able to return home. The teacher Lira will continue caring for the baby until the infant's parents and brother test COVID-negative, and the Guatemalan immigrant family can all be reunited. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)