In the early weeks of the pandemic, before coronavirus cases crushed hospitals in New York and spiked in other states, Dr. Rebecca Shadowen asked her friends a question on Facebook.
Shadowen, an infectious disease specialist in Kentucky, posted on March 13.
She toggled between local hospitals for the next four months, at times being placed on a ventilator and in the intensive care unit.
"There were multiple times she thought she was turning the corner and we thought she was on the road to recovery," David Shadowen, who is also a doctor, said.
David and Rebecca Shadowen were college sweethearts at Western Kentucky University, and together they enrolled at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
After her death, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear tweeted his praise of Shadowen as being a "front line hero.".
She embodied so much, David Shadowen said: a person of faith, a mother, a wife and a doctor. »