A 4-year-old Texas girl has died of COVID-19 — which she possible contracted from her mom, a staunch anti-vaxxer, the grieving guardian mentioned.
Little Kali Cook died in her sleep at residence in Bacliff on Tuesday, simply 5 hours after she woke within the early hours with the primary indicators of a fever, mom Karra Harwood instructed native media.
“Kali was perfectly fine, and then she was gone,” the shattered mom instructed the Houston Chronicle. “It took her so fast.”
Harwood mentioned she had examined optimistic the day before today, along with her and her fiancé, William Tucker, already out of work as a result of they had been sick and quarantining at residence.
“I tried to stay away from her and didn’t want her and my other kids to get it,” she instructed the Galveston County Daily News of Kali and her brother and 5-month-old sister, each of whom additionally bought contaminated.
The mom admitted that she now regrets opposing COVID-19 vaccines. In Texas, the vaccination charge is only a fraction over 50 %, Johns Hopkins University information reveals.
“I was one of the people that was anti, I was against it,” she instructed her native paper of the pictures.
“Now, I wish I never was,” she admitted.
Kali was the primary baby to have died of COVID-19 in Galveston County throughout the pandemic, which has seen practically 50,000 confirmed instances and greater than 470 different deaths there, in keeping with native well being officers.
“This is a terrible thing, but I think people need to know about it,” space well being official Philip Keiser instructed the Galveston County Daily News of the teenager’s dying.
Kali Cook is the primary baby to have died of COVID-19 in Galveston County, Texas, throughout the pandemic.
“It’s very important, if your kids are sick, not to say, ‘Oh, they’re going to be OK,’ ” Keiser mentioned. “If your kids are sick, go seek out medical care.”
Kali had simply began pre-kindergarten courses, however there is no such thing as a suggestion she bought contaminated there, officers mentioned. Contact tracing has not proven her being near anybody who was contaminated aside from her household, the experiences mentioned.
The county displays the Lone Star State common with round 50 % thus far vaccinated, though a latest spike in infections from the Delta variant has seen an uptick in these getting the pictures, the native paper mentioned.
Meanwhile, Harwood has launched a web-based fundraiser to assist whereas she and her fiancé are nonetheless out of work — and it shortly surpassed their purpose of $20,000.
“Her heart was too pure for this cruel world and God decided he needed another beautiful angel on his side,” they wrote of Kali.
“We are all so broken and lost and just trying to figure out how we are gonna get [through this life] without her light,” the pair added, saying they’re “overly stressed and hurting.”
Harwood instructed the Galveston County Daily News that her daughter had been “so humorous and sassy.
“She wasn’t your average little girl. She’d rather play with worms and frogs than wear bows,” the mom mentioned.
“She was just so pretty and full of life.”
