A Texas Kindergarten student has passed away from COVID-19 despite being “perfectly healthy”.
What We Know:
- Tagan Drone died on October 30th after testing positive for the virus.
- Tagan’s mother, Lastassija White, told local news station, KAMR, that she noticed something was off when Tagan started experiencing exhaustion. “She was just sleeping, sleeping, sleeping. That went on until Tuesday and Wednesday. She was still eating and drinking, and then Wednesday night, she started throwing up. So that Thursday, that’s when I decided to take her to the ER.”
- Tagan tested positive for the virus but was discharged from the hospital after doctors told White that her daughter would be fine. The following morning the mother found her daughter still breathing but unresponsive. Tagan died later that day.
- White believes Tagan’s death could have been avoidable, “My daughter was perfectly healthy. Perfectly healthy. There’s no way that should have happened,” White said to KAMR.
- Tagan’s parents felt that she could have been saved. “This doctor told us that our child would be fine, and our child didn’t even make it 24 hours,” he said. “She died within the next 15 hours.”
COVID-19 is currently responsible for more than 9,815,400 cases and 236,400 deaths in the United States.
