A NURSE with five children died from Covid last week without meeting her newborn daughter after months of working to save lives during the pandemic.
Davy Macias, 37, died on Thursday after being hospitalized last month while she was seven months pregnant.
Shortly after the California woman was intubated, doctors delivered the baby girl six weeks early.
However, her condition did not improve after the birth and she died without meeting her newborn daughter.
Her husband Daniel, a middle school teacher, also remains in a critical condition in intensive care after being hospitalized with Covid alongside Davy.
It is believed the couple contracted the Delta variant of the virus while on vacation with their four eldest children, aged 7, 5, 3, and 2.
They tested positive after traveling back from a beach and water park in late July.
Davy had not been vaccinated against Covid as she was nervous about doing so while pregnant despite being healthy, her brother Vong Serey told KTLA.
“My mom and I went to see her one last time on that bed… That’s an image that’s going to stay with me,” Davy’s sister Vandana Serey told ABC7.
“She touched everybody’s life… She’s a great and an amazing woman.”
Davy was a registered nurse and had been caring for patients through the pandemic as a labor and delivery nurse for Kaiser Permanente in Fontana.
“She touched everybody’s life. When she’s there, she’s an advocate for all of her patients. It’s always for the benefit of the patient and the babies,” Vandana added.
The family is now praying for Daniel’s recovery as they ask for help in supporting the couple’s five children.
Vandana told ABC 7 that Daniel had texted her warning that people should get the Covid vaccine from hospital.
“He was trying to breathe and said, if anyone is not vaccinated, I suggest you do now,” she said.
“He’s the type that would give you the shirt off his back if you were cold, that’s the type of person he is. These two people… They are wonderful people,” Vong said, adding that it had changed his opinion on the vaccine.
“COVID doesn’t play by the rules. It doesn’t matter — you’re young, old — it can hit anybody at this point.
“When it hits this close to home… it really affects you. It opens your eyes.”
A GoFundMe page has now been set up for the five children and has already raised more than $105,000.
Four of the children are staying with a family friend.
The newborn remains in neonatal intensive care but is doing well the family said.
She has not yet been named.
Vong said: “We’re hoping to get the baby out in about two weeks from now. No name for the baby yet because Daniel was waiting for Davy to wake up to give the baby the name.”
