Toddler recovers from Covid-19 despite heart defect and chronic lung disease

Leah Peters has spent much of her life going in and out of hospitals for operations and treatment and her parents admitted they thought it would be a “real struggle” if she contracted coronavirus. Her mother and father, Agata and Michael Peters, from Coningsby, Lincolnshire, said their daughter was a “little fighter” and “surprised us all” after she was sent home the day after receiving her test results. Leah was taken to the emergency department at Boston’s Pilgrim Hospital after she developed a cough and had low heart stats at the end of March. She was born prematurely at 32 weeks and five days – which meant she developed a chronic lung disease from birth, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust said. Speaking after her return home, Leah’s mother, Mrs Peters, said: “A few weeks ago we noticed that Leah had a bit of a cough, but living in a house with us and her two older sisters, Natalie aged four and Emily aged five, we assumed it was a cold or another bug they had brought home and were not overly worried. “The nurse took her stats and as they were a bit low and combined with the cough she called an ambulance and we were taken to the emergency department at Pilgrim Hospital where she was given oxygen and she picked up a bit.” She continued: “It was only later when we were on the ward that we heard that she had tested positive for coronavirus.

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