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A 4-year-old girl from Galveston, Texas , died in his sleep last week after contracting COVID – 19 , said his family.
Kali Cook , a preschool-age girl, began showing symptoms in the early morning of September 6. A little more than 24 hours later, at at 7 a.m. the next day, he died of coronavirus , his mother, Karra Harwood told the media local. “It made her sick so fast,” Harwood said.
The girl’s symptoms began after her mother, who is not vaccinated, tested positive for COVID- 19 on September 6.
Karra Harwood said that she came home and isolated herself from the rest of her family, which includes her fiancé, her brother. Kali and another her 5-month-old sister, to prevent them from contracting COVID – 15 .
“I tried to stay away from her and I didn’t want her and my other children to catch it,” Harwood told The Daily Galveston News .
But Kali Cook, who had no known pre-existing conditions, also became ill and quickly succumbed to coronavirus . She is the youngest Galveston County resident to die of COVID – 19 , reported county health officials.
“Kali was perfectly fine, and then she left,” he said Harwood to the Houston Chronicle. As the family continues to be isolated at home, they are now concerned that their 5-month-old daughter will not outgrow the virus.
Harwood said he now regrets not having been vaccinated.
“I was one of the people who was against it, I was against it,” he told The Daily News. “Now, I wish I had never been.”
Mother wants Kali Cook to be remembered by name rather than “a girl. ”
“ She was so fun and sassy, ”Harwood said. “She was not your average girl. I’d rather play with worms and frogs than wear bows. She was so pretty and full of life… she was beautiful. ”
Harwood and her fiancé were out of work during the pandemic and she started a GoFundMe page to help pay the bills.
“Our beautiful girl earned her wings this morning,” Harwood wrote on GoFundMe. “His heart was too pure for this cruel world and God decided that he needed another beautiful angel by his side. We’re all so broken and lost and trying to figure out how they gon ‘throw us down this life without its light ”.
Children represent more than 15% of all cases of coronavirus reported in the United States since the pandemic began, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.