Nine-year-old Texan girl with mild symptoms dies in sleep three days after positive Covid test

A nine-year-old Texan girl died in her sleep, three days after the positive test for COVID-19.

Makenzie Gongora showed only mild symptoms, including headache, nausea and tiredness, and suffered no breathing problems.

The fourth grader returned home after school feeling bad on Friday, January 29, her aunt Victoria Southworth told KSAT.

“Kenzie was complaining of a very bad headache and so they took her temperature and she had a fever,” she said.

After taking her to the Brooke Army Medical Center, doctors tested her for flu, streptococci and Covid; only the last one was positive.

“The doctors told my sister-in-law to take her home and make her comfortable, to monitor her fever, and if she got over a certain point, or if there was some other major problem, to go ahead and bring her back. to the hospital, “another aunt Erica Gongora told Today.

“There was no hard breathing or anything, at that point.”

Makenzie had no underlying health problems that the family knew about; besides being a little small for her age, she was in perfect health.

The family kept her under surveillance throughout the weekend, where her symptoms subsided and subsided, but never became more serious.

But on Monday, February 1, Makenzie told her parents that she felt very tired and went to bed early.

She never woke up.

“My sister-in-law later examined her at night and realized that she was no longer breathing and could not find her pulse,” recalled Gongora.

Makenzie’s father, Nathan, is an Army National Guard, and his mother, Kristle, a frontline medical worker. The day she died, her father and 8-year-old sister also tested positive for Covid.

The family is now awaiting an autopsy to see the major role the coronavirus played in his death.

“We hope this will give us the answer as to whether or not it was totally related to Covid, or exacerbated by Covid or nothing to do with Covid,” added Southworth.

A GoFundMe to help the family has more than doubled its goal of $ 30,000.

“Makenzie was 9 years old and was in 4th grade. Soft-spoken, tender-hearted, sweet and loving to everyone she met,” he describes.

“We suspect it is related to COVID, as we cannot find out what else could have caused this, but we will not know until we receive the report from the coroner.”