What's Behind A Cluster Of Vaping-Related Hospitalizations?
Dozens of people in the Midwest have been hospitalized with severe lung damage in the past month. It's unclear what exactly is causing the issue but the common link appears to be vaping.
When Dylan Nelson was admitted to the ICU in July with difficulty breathing, his mother Kim Barnes figured it was just his asthma acting up again. But when she got to the hospital in Burlington, Wisconsin, he couldn't speak. He was intubated. His blood oxygen level was only 10%. He was put into a medically induced coma.
Barnes told the nurse she worried she wouldn't ever see her 26-year-old son again. The nurse reassured her.
"And she said, 'We already treated an
