Jacksonville 8-year-old dies from coronavirus-related syndrome, family says - WJXT News4JAX

Jan 19, 2021

That’s the type of person she was,” said Dearick Nealy, Deaurra’s father.

According to her father, Deaurra died just days after the initial signs of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome, or MIS-C, which is a disease in children that usually follows an infection or exposure to the coronavirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“A perfectly healthy child, just going in for a normal stomach ache and a negative COVID test,” he said.

“Unfortunately, this is a syndrome where it is pretty pronounced when the kids have it,” said Dr.

The CDC says of the syndrome: “We don’t know why some children have gotten sick with MIS-C and others have not.

We also do not know if children with certain health conditions are more likely to get MIS-C.

And so a lot of people, they get lazy with simple sanitary measures like masks and hand sanitizer -- just something simple,” he said