When her two-year-old started feeling sick early last week, Ms Tiffany Jackson did not think it might be Covid-19.
No one else in the family, who live in a small town in the US state of Illinois, was sick. Adrian James just had a bit of a cough. She gave him cough syrup and put a humidifier in his room.
But by Friday, he was sweaty and his breathing was laboured.
Ms Jackson, 21, took him to an emergency room in their town, Mount Vernon. Doctors and nurses there did a chest X-ray and swabbed him for Covid-19.
The child was then airlifted to Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St Louis, about 130km away.
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