Jada Rice was like a lot of young people in the first stages of COVID-19, she still went out to enjoy a night out with friends. Unbeknownst to her, a bartender had COVID-19 and four days, she would have it also.
“So first I lost taste, had chills within the same day, and then that Saturday I had a fever of 104,” said Rice.
Just recently, Jada posted how she dealt with mistreatment in the hospital, and it was all due to the George Floyd protests.
“So I know that I shared my COVID experience with everyone, but I just wanted to speak on medical discrimination, negligence, and malpractice. While at Baylor Scott & White in Plano, TX, I feel that I was discriminated against because of my race. My medical concerns went undermined, a few of my nurses were judgmental and cruel; little did I know there was a political agenda behind it all. As many of you know, I acquired COVID from a night out at a bar with some friends. However, after I was placed in the ICU after a cytokine storm which left me unconscious, a nurse asked if I had acquired COVID from protesting for George Floyd.
I was confused as to why she wasn’t the only nurse who asked me that, she then told me that it said that in my file. I felt that it was strongly tied to my mistreatment. However, after they found out I was Jerry Rice’s daughter, everything changed. Although I am grateful for my life, EVERYONE deserves equal medical attention and care. I came face to face with death and I think about the narrative they would have pushed if I would have passed. These were the conversations with one of my nurses. I NEVER PROTESTED, but Black Lives DO Matter.”
Jada said at the time that Jerry Rice took her having COVID extremely hard.
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“He was so scared. Like, you could hear the fear in his voice. I think it scared him the most,” said Jada Rice.
“Me being only 24, I didn’t know it would hit me the way it did,” said Rice.
Thank goodness she has since recovered.
