A Florida teen was given hydroxycholorquine at home before being hospitalized and eventually dying of COVID-19.
FORT MEYERS, Fla. - The family of a 17-year-old Florida girl who died last month from COVID-19 treated her symptoms at home for nearly a week before taking her to a hospital,The home care included giving the girl unproven drugs and putting her on an oxygen tank used by her grandfather.
The News-Press could not independently verify which church was involved and a call to the possible host of the event was not returned Monday. A reporter also tried to reach the girl's mother without success on Monday. The girl had struggled with a number of health issues over the years, including a rare nervous-system disorder that resolved when she was 5, obesity and an auto-immune disorder, the report states.
But on June 13, the girl developed a frontal headache, sinus pressure, and mild cough. The family assumed they were the result of a sinus infection, the report states.
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