It was just a headache at first.
Unfortunately, the headache turned out to be an onset of the after-effects of the coronavirus infection, and 5 year old Skylar Herbert of Detroit sadly passed away on Sunday after two weeks on a ventilator, putting all efforts to no avail. The coronavirus had an unusual progression on her body including a very rare form of meningitis and brain swelling.
The mother of the child LaVondria has explicitly said that the doctors told her she was probably brain dead : ‘We basically just knew she wasn’t coming back to us.point 278 |
’ This comes especially heartbreaking after the fact that both of her parents are a tirelessly working first responders, but it had to be that their daughter was the first child victim of the coronavirus, without the parents knowing until recently that the pandemic was the one to blame.point 245 |
She suffered no other medical complications.point 39 | Skylar was diagnosed as meningoencephalitis, a rare complication of the coronavirus, which caused swelling of brain tissue and a lesion on her frontal lobe, her parents said.point 189 | 1
According to Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services, the second-youngest victim in the state was 20 years old. 31,348 confirmed cases are from Michigan of the coronavirus, resulting with a number of 2,389 deaths. 759,204 confirmed cases and 40,276 deaths for the whole nation of the USA.
A spokesman for Beaumont Health said it was a ‘tragedy’ that she was the one to fall victim:
‘The loss of a child, at any time, under any circumstances, is a tragedy. We are heartbroken that COVID-19 has taken the life of a child. We extend our deepest sympathy to Skylar’s family and all others who have lost a loved one to this virus,’
Skylar’s initial symptoms had absolutely no bearing to the commonly known features of the pandemic, hence the reason why their daughter was taken to the hospital in a completely underestimated prognosis.point 179 | Ebbie and LaVondria Herbert brought Skylar to a doctor on March 23, where she kept complaining of a almost chronic suffering of a headache which won’t go away with the usual medications.point 340 |
Unfortunately, at the time, she was only given antibiotics and was sent back to her home, leading to further progressions and ultimately her death.point 124 | 1
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