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“We’re robbing Peter to pay Paul, if you will, with these medications,” said Dr. Joseph Leventhal, a professor of surgery and director of kidney transplantation at Northwestern Medicine, who leads the clinical study.

And while the number of children going into the intensive care unit at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has not increased, Dr. Larry Kociolek says he expects that to change if infection numbers keep climbing.

Dr. Robert Murphy, the executive director of the Institute for Global Health at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, said calculating how many home tests go unreported is complicated.

Bury’s medical journey started when she was born with five congenital heart defects and two congenital lung defects. Less than a day old, she underwent her first open-heart surgery. According to Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Medicine, Bury’s TAPVR is extremely rare.

“Humans are social beings, so there is always that desire” to feel connected to others, said Sheehan Fisher, a psychologist and an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. People are craving that connection now more than ever.

Inform the close contacts you were around not only once you started feeling sick or once you took your test, but also those whom you were with in the days leading up to that point, said Dr. Khalilah Gates, an associate professor of medicine in pulmonary and critical care at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine.

“We already are seeing significant increases in the amount of influenza occurring across the United States, especially with regards to the eastern part of the U.S. and the central part of the country,” said Dr. Tina Tan, an infectious disease doctor at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.

The answer is no, said Dr. Jennifer Kusma, an instructor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Lurie Children’s Hospital pediatrician. “There’s no scientific reason or concern for either,” she said.

But studies also suggest that inflammation from a mother’s Covid infection can injure the placenta, said Dr. Jeffery Goldstein, an assistant professor of pathology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. In a study published last year, Goldstein and his co-authors found that placentas from Covid-infected moms had more abnormal blood vessels than placentas from patients without Covid, making it harder for them to deliver sufficient oxygen to the fetus.

“I think using the word ‘miraculous’ is a very appropriate word,” said Dr. Ankit Bharat, chief of thoracic surgery at Northwestern Medicine, who treated Carver. “She’s not going to get her lung function back to where it was before COVID hit her, but she’ll be able to lead a normal life.”