Spoke ANN, Wash Wash. – The only child who died of COVID-19 in Spokane County is a teenage girl, but her mother still doesn’t believe she died of the virus.
Abby Watson, 15, was tested positive for the virus 18 hours after she had several asthma attacks and a cardiac arrest. She died at Sacred Heart Hospital last Friday.
Related: SPHD Covid-19 has killed a child in Spokane County, according to reports.
The COVID-19 death certificate is shared with his mother, Stacey Nichols, 4 News Now. He says his daughter had several lifelong conditions, including asthma. Nichols says his daughter felt good on Wednesday, but collapsed later that night. She had a cardiac arrest and was brain dead by the time she arrived at the hospital, where she remained in a coma until her death.
Nichols is convinced that his daughter’s lifelong health condition led to her death, and the virus has become political.
She is angry that the Spokane Regional Health District identified her daughter as a COVID victim.
“It wasn’t the baby who died from covid, and that’s the point of this – the health department thinks they’re cold and they can only say such a thing,” says Nichols. “She had problems with pre-existing conditions and who says she’s really cowardly.”
Abobi is the youngest victim in Spokane County, and based on the health disease metrics, the epidemic is likely to spread throughout Washington state.
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