Skylar Herbert, a 5-year-old girl of Detroit, Michigan, USA, who complained to her parents a month ago of a headache, has died after contracting the coronavirus
The girl spent two weeks on a ventilator and eventually died on Sunday after testing positive for COVID-19 in March and later developing a rare form of meningitis and brain swelling.
Skylar’s mother LaVondria says that her child’s improvement had stopped and that doctors said she was possibly brain dead.
Skylar is believed to be the first child infected with the coronavirus to die in Michigan. Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services claims that before Skylar, the youngest person to die from COVID-19 in the state was 20.
Her parents, Ebbie and LaVondria Hebert, say that they don’t know how Skylar contracted the virus and that she had no other health issues.
Across the US there have been 759,204 confirmed cases and 40,276 deaths.
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