Covid-19 Creates Long, Anxious Waits for Fertility Treatments
https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-creates-long-anxious-waits-for-fertility-treatments/
Gina was draped in a drab hospital gown, sitting on the papered exam bench at her doctor’s office when she saw the news on her phone: San Francisco had issued a shelter-in-place order. It was March 16, just three days after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 outbreak a global pandemic. Gina was waiting for an embryo transfer, a procedure in which her egg, which had previously been removed and fertilized with her husband’s sperm, would be returned to her body.
Gina, who asked to be identified only by a pseudonym, recalls hearing the chaotic rumblings of office staff rushing around outside the room, and hushed voices talking about emergency conference calls. The procedure would be her third transfer; the first two had failed. She left the office that day hoping she would soon become pregnant, but tempered her hopes with the memories of past failed attempts. Another one would mean coming back to do it all over again.