She recollected that the cardiologist, a pregnant woman, had worn a mask while performing the intubation, and though that doctor got ill afterward, she recovered. The resident, standing nearby, had worn no mask. “It was a guy. He was sick for a while and brought it home. His mother,” Ang said. “His own mother nursed him and she became sick.” “Did they survive?” “No.” “Neither one of them,” I said. “It was one of the most painful things. Because he was a young, twenty-seven-year-old doctor. And his mother also died.”
