Six-month-old baby released from isolation after beating covid-19
Emotional moment six-month-old baby is given guard of honour by tearful nurses as she is released from isolation after beating coronavirus
- Erin Bates had been on a ventilator at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool
- She was diagnosed 14 days ago while overcoming heart and windpipe issues
- A touching video shows the six-month-old being clapped out of isolation
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This the touching moment a ‘miracle baby’ was given a guard of honour by tearful nurses and doctors after she beat Covid-19 and was wheeled out of isolation today.
Six-month-old Erin Bates is one of the youngest people to catch the infection and has spent the last 14 days alone in isolation at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool.
Today the little one was met with applause and cheers by medics as she left the separate room where she had been staying with her mum after beating the illness.
She had been treated on a high dependency unit, wired up to life-saving machines.
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Six-month-old Erin Bates is applauded as her cot is wheeled out of isolation at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool after overcoming coronavirus
But yesterday, nurses told her overjoyed parents Emma and Wayne that their daughter had pulled through.
And in a touching video, nurses at the children’s hospital were brought to tears as they clapped and cheered for Erin when was she moved out of isolation.
Posting the emotional video to social media, the hospital said: ‘You may have heard about 6 month old Erin who is in Alder Hey after recently being diagnosed with COVID19.
Six month-old Erin Bates linked up to a CPAP machine in Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital as she fought coronavirus
‘Erin was in an isolation room here for 14 days with mum Emma whilst being treated by our staff.
‘Today, little Erin beat COVID-19 after testing negative and received a guard of honour by the treating team on our HDU as she was moved out of isolation.
‘She is still being treated for other conditions at Alder Hey, but is making good progress.’
Erin Bates at a later stage in her recovery at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Parents Wayne and Emma. Emma is with Erin in hospital, while Wayne is self-isolating at home in Bury and keeping in touch via Facetime
Erin’s mum, Emma, said: ‘Thank you so much to each and every one of them, we couldn’t have got through it without them.
‘They are all truly amazing and we will be forever grateful.’
Erin’s first six months have been traumatic due to the discovery of a series of medical conditions, one of which required open heart surgery in December.
In January, she also suffered respiratory syncytial virus, which causes bronchiolitis and pneumonia in babies and can be fatal.
Further conditions affected her airways, tracheomalacia and bronchomalacia. These disorders affect the windpipe and its branches into the lungs, and already required use of the oxygen machine.
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