Posted on 10/06/2021 9:14:56 AM PDT by allen592
A Virginia family is reporting the death of their 10-year-old daughter. The latter died of coronavirus after she was potentially exposed to the virus while fulfilling her duties in school as a class nurse. The girl, Teresa Sperry, had been assigned by her teacher to be escorting her sick classmates to the school nurse at Hillpoint Elementary School.
I think Strep A is the worst one & needs to be treated with antibiotics. It can destroy the heart valves.
Common diseases of Strep A are pharyngitis or strep throat, impetigo, rheumatic cellulitis fever, scarlet fever, necrotizing fasciitis and toxic shock syndrome. Pharyngitis and impetigo are noninvasive diseases. Toxic shock syndrome, pneumonia, and bacteremia are invasive diseases. These diseases are transmitted from person to person by respiratory droplets coming out during the coughs, sneezes or due to direct contact.
There are lots of illnesses that kill 10 year olds... strep throat, meningitis, peanut allergies, diphtheria, tetanus, tuberculosis, and etc... Covid is not one of them.
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BTW, a good friend of mine lost his granddaughter to the flu a couple of years ago. She was 11. I believe it’s being said that the flu is more of a danger to kids than COVID.
Irritating that the article doesn’t tell us whether the strep test was positive as well. If the girl was already suffering from strep induced heart disease, Covid could easily have killed her.
A lot of people and parents don’t realize how dangerous strep can be, it starts damaging the heart often before symptoms present.
They are also the same symptoms for strep throat
By now everyone should be testing positive for covid antibodies
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For most common ailments this may have worked out just fine. Many children like being given duties and responsibilities. But for certain very dangerous or not fully understood illnesses such as COVID, hepatitis or TB, this was a terrible idea.
I wonder if the teacher had the parents permission to put their daughter at such a high level of risk?
First of all, there is no “nurse” job for any student in any school. That is made up or exaggerated
All she is doing is walking to the nurse’s office with her classmate. No big deal here, she is already sharing the furniture, door knobs, air space, etc with that student anyways. Walking with her classmate is no more “at risk” then what has already been going on in that classroom.
She is not operating, diagnosing, cleaning up after sick classmates, carrying them to the nurse’s office or anything like that. All she is is a trustworthy enough student to walk with a classmate down the nurse’s office and walk back.
She is not a “nurse”
Its called the buddy system
Not if you're using a PCS test. A grapefruit can test positive using it, so.... she probably died of strep.
“Should have found a thinner girl to be “class nurse”
DESPICABLE comment.
I don’t know if this is true or not, but wanted to address the idea that she was escorting the sick kids to the school nurse. Kids are not allowed to wander anywhere alone these days. Regardless of the reason (including the bathroom), kids go in pairs. Teachers cannot abandon classrooms to take the kids and most schools don’t (or didn’t when I was teaching) have the personnel available to pick up kids from the classroom. They probably need a better answer in the future (getting kids from point A to point B).
Boy you’re a classy guy. Feeling good about yourself?
Since when do sick kids need an escort to the nurse’s office at all? That’s weird.
Since the 80’s or 90’s
Its called the buddy system
No kidding. What’s the thought process…”Boy, I zinged that dead 10 year old real good”?
Agreed. But, some callous assholes can’t contain themselves. What if it was his faughter?
Lawyering up no doubt.
When I had Delta, the sore throat was horrible.
It's plausible she had both. Just terrible.
LOL...we raised three kids, oldest born in 1986, and I never heard of it.
You would be horrified at the number of parents that brought obviously underage children in and lied about their age in order to try to get them vaccinated.
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