Grappling with the aftermath of COVID-19 a year later
A year ago, an ambulance hurried Mike Weinhaus from his home in Chesterfield to Missouri Baptist Hospital because he could barely breathe. As he was being wheeled toward the intensive care unit, he remembers stopping in front of the room where his wife, Jane, a preschool teacher at Temple Israel, lay quiet, fighting for her life. She had been placed on a ventilator a few days earlier after testing positive for COVID-19. âAll I could think of was, how am I going to plan for the worst as sick as I am,â said Mike, 64, who also was experiencing severe symptoms having tested positive for...