Samantha Mottet knew she was dying of COVID-19. She feared her death was near but she didn't want to die on April 2. It was her brother's birthday.
She didn't want her family to have to think of her passing on that day. The 55-year-old Southern California mother of three was in a hospital bed being kept alive by a ventilator.
She tried a couple of experimental drugs but only got worse. On April 2, at 4:30 p.m., her husband signed a waiver giving the approval for doctors to use an experimental