A family in Virginia is trying to find out the truth about how their 10-year-old completely healthy daughter died in just five days from Covid-19, writes bg-voice.com.
As they try to cope with the sudden and profound loss, their message to non-believers in COVID is simple and direct: have compassion for others. If sharing the story of their daughter Teresa changes a person’s opinion of getting vaccinated against Covid-19 or wearing a mask to protect others, they say they will have done the right thing in her memory.
Teresa attended Hillpoint Elementary School in Suffolk, Virginia, where she was ordered to wear masks. Her parents, Nicole and Jeff Sperry, were vaccinated along with their two older sons. Teresa and their youngest 9-year-old son have not yet been vaccinated, but are looking forward to receiving the right.
Teresa’s symptoms for Covid began with a headache on Wednesday, September 22 and a fever the next day. After consulting with the family pediatrician on Friday, September 24, they booked an appointment for a Covid test for the following Monday, September 27.
On Sunday night, however, Teresa developed a severe cough, so bad that it forced her to vomit, so her mother took her to a local emergency department, where she was tested for strep throat.
“They did an X-ray of her chest and when they came back they said there were no signs of Covid’s pneumonia, her lungs were perfect, wonderful. The doctors didn’t seem worried, “Nicole recalled.
So they went home, and Teresa continued the quarantine. Within the next 24 hours, she stopped breathing and was taken to a local hospital, from where she was transferred to the Royal Daughters’ Children’s Hospital (CHKD) in Norfolk, where she died.
On Monday, as Nicole sits next to her child’s lifeless body in the emergency room, trying to figure out why they lost their beloved daughter so quickly, a school board meeting is less than 10 miles away in the school district where Nicole teaches. , to which the parents advocate the area to waive the mandatory requirement to wear a mask.
There are comments like “We didn’t know anything about Covid at first, but now we know, we know you have nothing to fear if you’re healthy” and “Covid is done effectively.”
“At the same time as I was at my daughter’s bed, Chesapeake public schools had a school board meeting and I had friends who came back and told me later that while I was sitting next to my daughter, who was no longer with us, “There were parents there who said Covid was over and healthy people didn’t die, especially children,” Nicole said.
“And I’m sitting there next to my dead daughter, who was completely healthy, who is a child who did everything she had to do. Perfectly healthy daughter.
In addition to breaking her arm as a child, Teresa was a healthy 10-year-old social and happy girl who never had the flu or even an ear infection, says her mother Nicole.
An avid reader, smart, beautiful, loving and always open to helping and caring for others, this is how Jeff describes his daughter. But it is that the aid may have contributed to her death, her family believes.
“One of the things she told us before she got sick was that her job was to be a ‘class nurse’ to take sick classmates to the nurse’s office,” Jeff said.
“And you have to understand my daughter, this is her, helping people is my daughter, this is not something she would not want to do.”
At Hillpoint Elementary School, the protocol is for the classroom teacher or adult to contact the central office with a “C code” if a child feels unwell and one of the administrators or a school nurse will come to the classroom to pick him up, he explained. Dr. John B. Gordon, III, head of the public schools department at Suffolk last Thursday.
“We are still investigating to ensure that this process has been followed properly,” he said.
“Our daughter was completely healthy,” Nicole wrote on Facebook, “and she would have been here if people had stopped sending their sick children to school.”
After spending some time in virtual education last year, Nicole says Teresa was eager to return to the classroom this school year.
“Every child grows up saying ‘I hate school,’ and they’re the first generation of kids to grow up and now say, ‘I wish I was in school, I missed school, I miss my friends,'” Jeff said.
There have been no cases of COVID specifically in Teresa’s class, Gordon told CNN. “Before the tragedy with Teresa, there were zero cases, and from my message to you there are zero cases. Contact tracking is still ongoing. “
While the number of children who tested positive for Covid-19 has declined slightly, they still make up a higher percentage of the total number of new Covid-19 cases in the United States in the last week of the previous week, representing nearly 27 % of all reported cases nationwide, the American Academy of Pediatrics said Monday.
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