They made her a nurse. Theresa Sperry was in the fifth grade at Hillpoint School in Suffolk and her teachers entrusted her with the task of escorting the sick children in her class to the infirmary. “My daughter was in good health. She would have stayed here if the other families had not sent the sick children to school. In addition to accompanying the sick children to the dispensary, in case they had to go home, she had to go and bring their backpack and hand it to the pupils,” says my mother. , Nicole.
He died after five days of illness The little girl started experiencing her first symptoms on September 22nd. At first he had a headache, then a fever and a severe cough. The situation quickly worsened and Teresa was taken to the hospital, where she died a few days later. The swab result, positive for Covid, came post-mortem.
School: ‘Adults are required to take care of suspicious children’ – A Suffolk Public Schools spokesperson told The Virginian-Pilot that according to school rules, adults, not their peers, care for children with potential Covid symptoms and explains that investigations are underway in institutions to ensure protocol is strictly followed.
In children, deaths from Covid are very rare. But the delta type has led to an increase in infections among the very young, also because the young have not yet been vaccinated. The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that nearly 5.9 million children have tested positive for the virus since the start of the pandemic.
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