Deon J. Hampton is a national reporter for NBC News.
DENVER — The family of a 4-year-old boy whose heart had stopped beating hours earlier gathered at Children’s Hospital Colorado last month to say their final goodbyes to Cartier McDaniel. Some slept in the waiting room when they weren’t praying at Cartier’s bedside after doctors told his parents, Destiny Anderson and Dominique McDaniel, that it was only a matter of time before his life support machine wouldn’t be able to keep his body functioning properly without a heartbeat.
The condition led to sepsis — the body’s extreme response to an infection — they said. Each year in the U.S., more than 75,000 infants and children develop severe sepsis, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Almost 7,000 of them die, more than the 1,800 children who die of cancer each year, according to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, a pediatric cancer charity.
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