A Florida teen attended a 100-person church function. Two weeks later she died 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. Her mother, a nurse, and a man identified in the report as her father, a physician assistant, gave the girl azithromycin — an antibiotic being studied as a potential COVID-19 treatment — as a protective measure, the report states.
On June 19, the girl's mother noticed that she looked"gray" while sleeping. The girl was then given an unspecified dose of hydroxychloroquine — an arthritis and lupus drug some, including President Donald J. Trump, have touted as a possible treatment for COVID-19.Either way, there is little evidence that hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment of COVID-19.
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