Florida teen attended large church gathering, was given hydroxychloroquine by parents before dying from COVID-19, report says - NBC News

A Florida teenager with "a complex medical history" attended a large church function where she did not wear a mask and social distancing was not enforced, and when she became sick, her parents gave her a dose of hydroxychloroquine in the days before she died of COVID-19, according to a medical examiner's report.

The girl, Carsyn Leigh Davis, 17, of Fort Myers, fought health issues since age 2, including cancer and an autoimmune disorder, her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, said in a Facebook post that has been deleted, according to the News-Press of Fort Myers.

Carsyn and 100 other children attended the church event June 10, according to the Miami-Dade County medical examiner's report.

Her mother, a nurse, and her stepfather, a physician's assistant, "prophylactically treated her with azithromycin," an antibiotic, from June 10 to June 15, the report says.

She was transferred to a pediatric intensive care unit at another hospital, where she was diagnosed with the coronavirus on June 19.

Jones said in a series of recent tweets that the youth event Carsyn attended was hosted by First Assembly of God in Fort Myers

"It is heartbreaking that a young lady who frequently attended Youth Church over the past few years has recently passed away

The church, and many members of Youth Church particularly, had reached out to her family and her during her illness, praying for her and sending video messages and personal encouragement while she was going through her illness and in the hospital," the church said