{"id":10576,"date":"2020-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10576"},"modified":"2020-07-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10576","title":{"rendered":"Maxx Cheng, teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maxx Cheng \u2011 a 13-year-old Claremont boy from who had been isolating in his room after experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, died on July 16, 2020.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“He had this, like, dream of wanting to go to the Olympics,” Charlotte Cheng, Maxx’s sister, said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Quarantined inside her home, Cheng said her younger brother began to feel sick on the Fourth of July.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“Nausea, vomiting, chest pains,” she said. “That list that pops up, a little bit, on that initial search, he had all of those symptoms.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

On July 9, Maxx’s mother took him to get tested for COVID-19. That test came back negative.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“His symptoms matched, but then the test came out negative,” Cheng said. “So we were a little bit confused.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Despite the test result, Maxx continued to isolate in his bedroom due to his ongoing symptoms.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“We went to go check up on him, like we normally do,” Cheng said. “He wasn’t answering. We found him passed out in the room.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Maxx died on the night of July 16, 2020, after days of seeming improvement over the past week.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“There was almost no cough,” Cheng said. “The fever had gone down three days before he passed.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“Somebody who is athletic, somebody who is on the swimming team who is so energetic and active dies from it, it changes the conversation,” Nichole Weinstein, a family friend said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The Cheng family said they had been very careful, even before Maxx got sick, so they didn’t know where he could have contracted the illness.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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