Little 9-year-old girl becomes Florida’s youngest Covid-19 victim, please pray for the family!
As Florida revealed the lowest number of new coronavirus cases, 8,892, in almost three weeks, one family sadly has is now mourning the loss of their young 9-year-old daughter.
She’s believed to be the Florida's youngest victim of the terrible virus.
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Kimora “Kimmie” Lynum began feeling sick on July 11. A few days after her family sent her to the hospital where her temperature was taken and it was 103 degrees – and gave her a urine test. She was not given a COVID-19 test.
“I thought they would have jumped on that when they saw here fever,” Mikasha Young-Holmes, Kimmie’s mother, told WCJB.
Instead, she was told her daughter had a urinary tract infection and went home.
GoFundMe/Kimora Lynum – Fly High Little Angel
A few days later after a day of shopping, something Kimmie loved to do with her mom, she went to take a nap. She never woke up.
“I was shaking her, yelling at her. I yelled at my mom and told her to come in here because Kim is not breathing,” Young-Holmes said.
Mashell Atkins, Kimmie’s grandmother, began CPR.
“I was just trying to bring her back. I tried, I tried everything I could to bring her back,” Atkins said.
She was transported to a hospital where she died. According to her family it was only after she died that she was tested for coronavirus.
Her results came back positive.
Kimmie’s family said she had no underlying health conditions and her mother couldn’t figure out where she contracted the virus.
“At this point, I have no idea. I’m just still pretty much stuck in the now,” she said.
It’s believed that Kimmie is the youngest person to die from COVID-19 related symptoms in Florida.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help Kimmie’s family pay for medical bills and funeral expenses. Her family would also like to set up a scholarship fund to help keep her memory alive.
RIP to Kimmie.
Be sure to share this story as a reminder that the coronavirus is still a serious issue and until there’s a cure and a vaccine, it’s not over.
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