Tanna Ingraham first spoke to ABC13 in June when she was first diagnosed with the virus.
“I can honestly say I know what it’s like as a health care provider and patient,” Ingraham said in June.
Now months later, Ingraham was hit by COVID-19 again.
“It hit me a lot harder and a lot faster this time,” she said. “It feels like someone hit you with a baseball bat.”
The second time Ingraham said she had a fever and needed to be treated by a nurse. She also added that the virus has affected her so badly that she cannot remember spending a week in the hospital.
“We’ve had a patient who has had it (COVID-19) three times. It’s common. This virus can mutate and end up in a different type of strain,” said Ingraham.
Unfortunately, the hospital she works for, the United Memorial Medical Center, has no plans to give them COVID-19 vaccinations this time.
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Although it is a smaller hospital in the Houston area, Ingraham said it should not exempt them from receiving the vaccine.
“If they want to get around us completely … you can’t be more frontline than we are now,” she said. “We have some really sick patients, and our hospital mainly treats COVID-19.”
For now, Ingraham will continue to recover at home, but as soon as she is better she will be taking care of patients again.
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