New mom is fighting for her life in intensive care with COVID after delaying getting vaccine to protect her unborn child and giving birth via emergency C-section
A South Carolina woman has been fighting for her life in the intensive care unit for 16 days after contracting COVID-19 while pregnant and giving birth to her son.
Jamal Chubb, whose wife Cierra Chubb remains in the ICU after contracting the virus, has been detailing his wife's condition in heart-wrenching videos to TikTok after returning home alone to parent their newborn son Myles.
Cierra, 33, tested positive for COVID-19 in late July and was admitted to a hospital near the family's home in Lancaster on July 24, her husband said. Myles was born by c-section on July 26 - two weeks early.
When she contracted the virus, she had been waiting to get the vaccine until after Myles' birth out of fears for her son's safety. Jamal has said that doctors told him it remains 'not likely' that Cierra will survive the virus - while he hopes for a miracle.
Jamal Chubb, whose wife Cierra Chubb remains in the ICU after contracting the virus, has been detailing his wife's condition in heart-wrenching videos to TikTok
Cierra, 33, tested positive for COVID-19 in late July and was admitted to a hospital near the family's home in Lancaster on July 24
Jamal, who is vaccinated and did not contract COVID-19, first posted a video of Cierra laboriously breathing with an oxygen mask in the hospital on July 30 while he tearfully watches her.
'She was 38 weeks pregnant and we had to deliver early because the baby was in distress,' Jamal said in a video on July 31, before introducing his new son Myles.
'Please pray for my family. We have two other kids and have been married for 12 years.'
He added: 'Delta variant COVID is destroying my family. I understand only 2% of the people in the nation die from COVID - but that 2% is 100% of somebody's life.'
By August 1, the hospital had to put Cierra onto a ventilator - which he called the hardest day of his life. He asked for those following his family's health crisis to send him stories where they had been in his shoes and their loved ones recovered.
Jamal has continued to give updates about his wife's condition nearly every day since as her condition has worsened. Cierra was put onto a ventilator, before doctors ultimately put her into a medically-induced coma.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Jamal for further updates about his wife's condition and additional comments.
The worried husband told Good Morning America that he believes the family was exposed to the virus after their daughter, 7, attended a summer sports camp where employees later tested positive.
Cierra has since given birth to the couple's third child while fighting for her life in the intensive care unit
Jamal, who is vaccinated and did not contract COVID-19, first posted a video of Cierra laboriously breathing with an oxygen mask in the hospital on July 30
The couple's daughter and their 2-year-old son also experienced symptoms, he told the outlet.
'Cierra thought it was just a cold that had been passed around. She didn't think it was COVID,' he told Good Morning America.
'Later down the line, as Cierra's symptoms worsened, I had her get tested because of how bad her cough was.'
Jamal said he was able to be there for the birth of his son, who was born healthy - without coronavirus - weighing five pounds, seven ounces.
He recounted the moment he had to take his son home alone without Cierra, calling it 'the most nerve-wracking drive' of his life.
'That was the first time Cierra was not in the car with me when we had a newborn sitting in the backseat, making certain he was okay, so I kept putting my hand back in the car seat to make sure he was okay,' he said.
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