BY JASMYN BEMBOOM
Staff Writer
A mom named Erika Becerra who was only 33, she was diagnosed with COVID-19. She was eight months pregnant. Her brother said, “the new mom was intubated shortly after giving birth and never had a chance to hold her newborn son, named Diego Antonio Becerra.” Erika’s family traveled from Los Angeles to Detroit as her condition got worse.
On December 3, she passed away. Her brother also told the news, “Toward the last moment, she was tearing up. I know she heard us as we prayed for her, we talked to her, we talked to her, we comforted her at the last moment.”
In addition to her newborn son, Becerra had underlying health issues, and also leaves behind her husband and her 1 year-old daughter.