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30Jul

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Estelia Perez, teenager

Estelia Perez, a 16 years old girl in South Florida, died on July 29, 2020, after contracting COVID-19. Estelia's was family is from Guatemala. Her mother spoke with Local 10 News, saying she never thought this pandemic nightmare would hit so close to home. She said she is beyond heartbroken. According to her mother, Estelia was born with underlying medical conditions that made her among those most vulnerable to the coronavirus. She said Estelia came down with a fever in early July that went on for about three days. An ambulance took her to Nicklaus Children's Hospital on July 5. She was intubated until she died last Wednesday. Estelia is survived by two brothers, who live with their mother in Homestead. Their father was deported back to Guatemala in 2010. L...

17Jul

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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...

24Jun

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Carsyn Davis, teenager

Carsyn Davis ‑- a 17-year-old Fort Myers resident and a cancer survivor with a rare, ongoing autoimmune disorder ‑- died of respiratory failure after contracting the new coronavirus on June 23, 2020. The medical examiner's report notes that Davis attended a 100-person church event, where people were not required to wear face masks, roughly two weeks before she died in a Miami-Dade County hospital. During the nine days that followed, she was given antibiotics, hydroxychloroquine and oxygen via her grandfather's portable machine by her parents while at home. Her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, is a nurse. The hospital recommended intubation when Davis was admitted to its pediatric unit on June 19, but her parents declined the procedure, according to the county medi...