“Have you ever seen a baby squirming, turning purple, pretty much dying from something that could have been prevented?”
The Orem mother has spent most of the last two weeks in the hospital with her newborn baby, who developed whooping cough a week before she was old enough to get the first vaccination against the disease. Multiple times a day, Harman watches as Sissarina’s heart rate drops and she fights to breathe as nurses fill the room and hook up oxygen tubes or a mask to help the baby breathe.

