carvase

Respiratory therapist Diane Gelpi gives oxygen to Carvase Perrilloux after he was taken off a ventilator at Children’s Hospital New Orleans. The 2 month-old arrived a week earlier with COVID-19. He was finally ready to breathe without a ventilator keeping his tiny body alive. “You did it!” nurses in PPE cooed as they removed the tube from his airway & he took his first solo gasp, bare toes kicking