Maxx Cheng, teenager
Maxx Cheng ‑ a 13-year-old Claremont boy from who had been isolating in his room after experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, died on July 16, 2020.
“He had this, like, dream of wanting to go to the Olympics,” Charlotte Cheng, Maxx’s sister, said.
Quarantined inside her home, Cheng said her younger brother began to feel sick on the Fourth of July.
“Nausea, vomiting, chest pains,” she said. “That list that pops up, a little bit, on that initial search, he had all of those symptoms.”
On July 9, Maxx’s mother took him to get tested for COVID-19. That test came back negative.
“His symptoms matched, but then the test came out negative,” Cheng said. “So we were a little bit confused.”
Despite the test result...