Is your kid coughing? Pneumonia outbreak is walloping the Baltimore area

For three long nights last week, Alexis Geddes sat by her daughter’s hospital bed, staring at the monitors tracking the amount of oxygen in little Alma’s bloodstream. Doctors at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson had warned Geddes they would need to transfer the 3-year-old to the pediatric intensive care unit if her lungs did not improve. For weeks, Geddes had heard stories swirling around their Rodgers Forge neighborhood of children with pneumonia.