2026-04-20 from ctvnews.ca
Vita Sara Blechner’s life changed on a Saturday afternoon. The middle school librarian was home in Oceanside, New York, when she felt shooting pains in her back. After an acid reflux pill couldn’t soothe the fiery feeling, her husband suggested a trip to the emergency room.
It was March 7, 2020, just days before Covid-19 would turn New York City’s hospitals into something approaching a war zone. If the doctors knew what was coming, they didn’t let on. They were cool and collected as they put Blechner, then 67, through a sonogram and a CT scan. But the pictures turned her world upside-down.
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