Dr. Christina Yannetsos Featured on CNN Story: Physicians suffering from infertility face challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic

Oct 18, 2021

(CNN) Dr. Christina Yannetsos' patient was about her age, 38, and extremely sick with Covid-19.

"I remember having a conversation with her kids who were probably anywhere from 10 to teenagers, and them asking me if their mom was going to die," Yannetsos, an emergency medicine physician at the University of Colorado Hospital, recalled. "It was one of the most difficult things to have that conversation while I was also trying to build a family myself."

Yannetsos got married when she was 34 and tried to have a baby for a year but couldn't.

In March of last year, she was scheduled to do in vitro fertilization, but her procedure was canceled because of the pandemic.

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