Coronavirus: Daughters praying for their mother’s return to health

DAYTON — Angela Barnett and Michelle Webre are praying their mother will survive her bout with coronavirus, now nearly three months long.

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Barnett and Webre try to visit Kindred Hospital at least once daily to check on Shiela Johnson, who has been on a ventilator nearly from the time she was admitted.

Thursday night, the daughters were joined by close to two dozen people who all came together in prayer for Johnson and others afflicted by COVID-19.

“They really don’t understand how to fix the COVID patients that’s like Mom,” Barnett told News Center 7′s Ronnell Hunt. “They don’t know what they are looking at. They try one thing and that fails.”

Johnson was on dialysis, but otherwise healthy, the daughters said. She went into the hospital on June 4. Doctors put her on a ventilator three days later.

“There’s other people going through it too, so It’s a living nightmare,” said Barnett, who believes their mother contracted the virus at her church in Fairborn.

Thursday’s prayer vigil was Barnett and Webre’s way of letting other families and hospital workers know they are not alone.

“Never lose hope and faith,” Webre said. “...God bless their families. I pray for them. I really do.”

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