Texas parents of a kindergartener who tested positive for COVID-19 says doctors told them she would be okay and let her out the hospital. However, less than 24 hours later she passed away. Lastassija White says she taught her daughter Tagan to be careful and wear a mask in public at all times according to FOX 8. The Amarillo resident told KAMR her daughter began to act differently on Oct. 27.
“She was just sleeping, sleeping, sleeping,” she recalled. “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.”
The kindergartner tested positive for COVID-19 two days later although she hadn’t had any symptoms like a fever or cough. Although she tested positive doctors didn’t appear to be concerned about Tagan‘s results.
“And (the doctor) came in, they discharged us and just told me that she would be fine. It doesn’t affect kids, (and advised) not to have her around anybody older,” White said.
Tagan’s condition, however, didn’t improve and when her mother checked early the next morning she “was unresponsive, but she was still breathing.”
Tagan passed away after her parents called an ambulance to take her to the hospital.
“This doctor told us that our child would be fine, and our child didn’t even make it 24 hours. She died within the next 15 hours,” Quincy Drone, Tagan’s father, told KAMR.
“My daughter was perfectly healthy,” White said. “Perfectly healthy. There’s no way that should have happened.”
Drone says his daughter could have been saved had she remained at the hospital after testing positive.
“We feel as parents that our daughter could have been saved. I mean, we feel that we’re not just saying that because it’s our daughter,” he said. “We just honestly feel like even if … they probably shouldn’t have sent her home. I mean it was just mistakes made … too many mistakes made that cost a 5-year-old her life.”
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