As a midwife, Tania McCracken spends hours with pregnant women and their families inside their homes, helping deliver newborns. The essential hands-on work puts McCracken and other California midwives at risk of COVID-19.
“There’s a lot of breathing involved,” she said, noting that scientists have found that labor, like singing, may spread the virus through the air.
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