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Cause of death revealed for 19-year-old Air Force Academy cadet found dead in her dorm room
ny post ^ | 10/05/2024 | By Lauren Elkies Schram

Posted on 10/05/2024 9:59:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Avery Koonce, 19, of Tyler, Texas, died Sept. 4 as the result of “paeniclostridium sordelli sepsis complicating parainfluenza laryngotraceobronchitis,” according to an autopsy report from the El Paso County Coroner’s Office.

“In essence she died of untreated pneumonia,” said famed forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, who reviewed the autopsy report obtained by The Post.

The coroner described paeniclostridium sordelli as a “relatively rare but potentially fatal anaerobic bacteria” that is “associated with a toxic shock-like syndrome that can rapidly progress to death.” But it was “secondary” to the parainfluenza — or viral lung infection — the coroner’s report found.

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Koonce was a high school track star who was a member of the academy’s track and field team.

A sprinter at Thrall High School in Taylor, Texas, she ran 100 meters in 12.12 seconds and 200 meters in 25.67 seconds.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: airforce; airforceacademy; averykoonce; cadet; elpasocounty; koonce; pneumonia; taylor; texas; tyler
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To: Mr Rogers

Not your momma but we used to look after our people. Even in my office I took head count every morning and monitored the well-being of my people and did something to check on them if something looked out of place. I was especially careful for the hard-chargers since they never give in until it is too late. It was not a formal thing or required, just what I thought was important.


21 posted on 10/05/2024 11:18:33 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: griswold3
- ... just diagnosed with bladder cancer -

My late wife was diagnosed with bladder cancer and had a bout with pneumonia while in the hospital and rehab. After a couple months she passed away, and the COD was listed as sepsis.

22 posted on 10/05/2024 11:23:52 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: griswold3

Sad and sorry to hear.


23 posted on 10/05/2024 11:29:21 AM PDT by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
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To: BenLurkin
Bad time of year. USAFA.

Hundreds of people from hundreds of completely different biomes come together and mingle viruses, bacteria, funguses, and parasites.

Everyone completely stressed out and sleep deprived, cortisol response up, immune function at all-time low.

Gets sick, viral at first, then commensal bacteria in the tonsils start overgrowing.

Sicker and sicker, goes to bed, it's just a bad sore throat. Viral so no need for antibiotics, right?

Septic, then dead.

Not common but not surprisingly rare in big ICUs where such a story in a young person is seen once every two to six months or so.

24 posted on 10/05/2024 11:30:05 AM PDT by caddie
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To: BenLurkin

Pneumonia is particularly deadly after a covid injection...


25 posted on 10/05/2024 11:44:57 AM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: desertsolitaire

Henson had had it for a couple of weeks actually but was treating it like a bad cold.


26 posted on 10/05/2024 11:56:10 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Skywise

Thanks, I never knew that.


27 posted on 10/05/2024 11:58:56 AM PDT by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
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To: Mr Rogers

“When I was in the military, that would have been reason to fire the commander.”

Exactly. What kind of high intensity training unit does not lay eyes on a trainee every single day?


28 posted on 10/05/2024 12:07:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: lapsus calami

No matter what her drive was, someone directly over her had a duty to lay eyes on her every day. If begs and pleads and says she’s ok, too bad. That leader had a responsibility to take her by the stacking swivel straight to sickbay.

Totally unsat for the Air Force Academy to be so lax.

That leadership concept is DIRECTLY applicable to the war zone. Not following it is how people get left behind or forgotten.
It’s so basic that it’s astonishing the base commander has not already been relieved.


29 posted on 10/05/2024 12:11:28 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: DesertRhino
 
 
There's gonna have to be accountability. Period. I don't know what the family's plans are, but they need to push it. I may know something about it next week.
 
 

30 posted on 10/05/2024 12:14:45 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: TexasGator

Still didn’t happen overnight. Someone was not properly supervising their trainees.


31 posted on 10/05/2024 12:15:24 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: mewzilla

The toxic shock syndrome is usually caused by Staphylococcus aureus and occasionally by Streptococcus group A bacteria. Clostridial bacterial species produce a range of toxins; the ones we are most familiar with would be botulinum and gangrene.


32 posted on 10/05/2024 12:17:22 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: caddie

“Hundreds of people from hundreds of completely different biomes come together and mingle viruses, bacteria, funguses, and parasites. Everyone completely stressed out and sleep deprived, cortisol response up, immune function at all-time low.”

OK, then if they snowflakes are so medically fragile, and the risk is so high, a disciplined and well lead military unit will have them fall out on line, twice a day, for health and wellness inspection by an NCO.
Anyone sick goes to sickbay.... no debate.


33 posted on 10/05/2024 12:18:33 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: Gil4

I agree. When I was still active duty, I had to do an accountability check on Soldiers, civilians, contractors, and interns in my division any time something happened. Even if someone was overseas on vacation, I had to make every effort to contact them.

So, why did her unit not do an accountability check?


34 posted on 10/05/2024 12:21:16 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: BenLurkin

My first thought after my initial sadness was to wonder if she might have been using an IUD and whether that could be associated with the pneumonia. I did find some literature that showed such a possibility.

I don’t think young sexually active women are properly told of the risks of various birth control devices. It is too easily forgotten that our bodies don’t like foreign materials and will fight them. This puts stress on the immune system making infection more likely and harder to fight off. Especially when it comes to toxic shock.

We don’t know if she had an IUD so this is speculation from me.


35 posted on 10/05/2024 12:26:22 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: nwrep

As a matter of fact it does. There is more than one type of pneumonia.


36 posted on 10/05/2024 12:26:56 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: SuperLuminal
Pneumonia is particularly deadly after a covid injection...

Stop with the misinformation already.

A Covid injection cannot cause Covid, as it only contains a single gene which tricks the immune system into producing antibodies. In order for someone to catch Covid, they have to be exposed to whole intact active viruses. And of course, the chance of catching severe Covid drops significantly after a Covid injection.

She probably had something we call "influenza-like-syndrome" or "ILI" which is caused by any number of viruses (but not influenza viruses). Since viral infections leave people more susceptible to catching bacterial infections, an ILI is what probably led to the deadly pneumonia.

37 posted on 10/05/2024 12:27:05 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: exDemMom

https://www.cdc.gov/c-sordellii/about/index.html

You should appreciate the source.

I’m thinking that there has been a lot left out of the coroner’s report.


38 posted on 10/05/2024 12:31:07 PM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s a lot of words to say “vaxx”.


39 posted on 10/05/2024 12:37:30 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: nwrep

Safe and effective.....?


40 posted on 10/05/2024 12:39:17 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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