Hingham, Mass
“Is he going to make it?” Kim Bello asked, clutching her phone, alone in her yard.
She had slipped outside so her three children, playing games in the living room, could be shielded from a wrenching conversation with a doctor treating her husband, Jim.
For two weeks, he had been battling the coronavirus at Massachusetts General Hospital, on a ventilator and, for the past nine days, connected to a last-resort artificial heart-lung machine as well.
The physician, Dr. Emmy Rubin, gently told Kim Bello that while her husband had a chance of surviving, “If you’re asking for an honest opinion, it’s more likely than not that he won’t.—AP
