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Darko Manevski

Mother Fears COVID-Canceled Treatments Lead To Baby’s Disability

Young Hallie Spree pictured in undated photograph. Hallie may be wheelchair-bound for life due to a condition doctors can’t diagnose after many of her hospital appointments were canceled due to COVID. (Steve Chatterley, SWNS/Zenger)

An English mother fears her young daughter may be wheelchair-bound for life due to a condition doctors can’t diagnose – because so many hospital appointments were canceled due to COVID.

Rachael Swadling, 25, was induced into labor at 28 weeks after a serious heart condition was discovered halfway through her pregnancy with daughter Hallie Spree, in 2019.

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