A 5-year-old has died in Michigan after a coronavirus infection left her likely brain-dead on a ventilator, her family says.
Little Skylar Herbert first complained a month ago about bad headaches — with COVID-19 causing a form of meningitis that caused swelling of her brain, her parents told the Detroit News.
“We decided to take her off the ventilator today because her improvement had stopped, the doctors told us that it was possible she was brain-dead,” her mother, LaVondria Herbert, told the paper Sunday.
“We basically just knew she wasn’t coming back to us,” said the 46-year-old mom, a Detroit cop for 25 years.
Skylar had initially tested positive for strep throat on March 23, with her pediatrician sending her home with antibiotics. But her parents took her to the ER after she stayed up “crying all night and saying the headache would not go away,”
She was tested for COVID-19 at Beaumont Royal Oak, which came back positive the next day. The family returned the next day, this time because Skylar’s dad — Detroit firefighter Ebbie Herbert — showed symptoms of the bug. The youngster had a seizure while her father was being tested, and tests later revealed meningitis.
Her parents told the Detroit News they do not know how she became infected because she had stayed home for weeks and had no pre-existing conditions. Her father’s test came back inconclusive despite his symptoms, they say.
Skylar is the first child to have died of the contagion in Michigan, the paper saysstory from NYpost.com
Sad rest in peace little one.
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Ewooo!!!! God rest her soul.
ReplyDeleteMay her young soul RIP.
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ReplyDeleteStella i dont get the surprise here, and No, shes not the first, maybe the first to be announced.
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad and tragic ,
ReplyDeleteThis whole thing is just a terrible nightmare .
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Oh no! This must be hard for her parents. May her soul RIP. God please we need your intervention.
ReplyDeleteChai! Rest in peace little angel
ReplyDeleteRip Skyler
ReplyDeleteWatched on CNN this morning a baby btw 3/6 months,cant recollect exact age died of Corona Virus too.
ReplyDeleteLord when will this thing end im just tired. Even dat CNN host Cuomo dat had it,after he and the wife are even just recovering the son tested positive.
This illness is just terrible. Whichever set of ppl dat created dis virus and spread it either mistakinly or purposely shall never know peace. This yr 2020 will be remembered for decades to come.
Amen to your prayers...Very scary pandemic,once you are infected,family gets infected too
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ReplyDeleteMay her soul rest in peace...this is painful
ReplyDeleteThis is a sad one, may God rest her soul.
ReplyDeleteOh rest in Peace little one.God all we nned is your mercy.
ReplyDeleteI believe there's a means of contracting this disease that is not known
ReplyDeleteRip to her.
ReplyDeleteMay God rest her beautiful soul.
ReplyDeleteChai! May God rest her soul
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