A young girl with no underlying health conditions passed away after having a high fever.
She became the youngest person to die from Covid-19 in Florida, and her loved ones have no idea how, where, or when she contracted the virus.
9-year-old Kimora ‘Kimmie’ Lynum from Putnam County died from coronavirus complications and became the fifth minor to have succumbed to the virus in the state.
According to CNN, Lynum’s cousin Dejeon Cain said that she was rushed to a hospital after having a high fever.
Lynum was then sent home but she later collapsed and died.
It is not clear when or how the young girl contracted the infection as she did not go to school and had spent the entire summer at home.
Lynum’s mother was tested for coronavirus and is currently waiting for the results.
Cain called his cousin ‘phenomenal’ and said that the 9-year-old ‘was always happy and made everybody happy.’
He also said that Lynum’s death was ‘like a double whammy’ for them as her father had been killed last month.
Cain told My CBS 4: “It was very difficult, we just buried him and now we’re burying her. The family is troubled.”
Cain also said that his cousin “didn’t have a chance to live her life but she was always happy, she was resilient and she just was an outgoing young lady.”
“The governor needs to be honest with people. By not being honest, it puts everyone at risk, and we can’t use our children as pawns and put them out there out to die,” he added.
“Kimmie was a beautiful soul who couldn’t live her life and if we don’t get control of this we’ll have more of this in the state.”
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