'She was required to walk all sick students in her class to the nurse's office.'
A Virginia 10-year-old died of Covid-19 complications just five days after she started showing symptoms, according to her parents, who said the girl may have been exposed to the virus as a result of being classroom "nurse."
"And she said that if the kids were sick and needed to go home, she had to go get their book bag and take it back,” Nicole SperrySuffolk Public Schools did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News, but Anthonette Ward, a Suffolk Public Schools spokeswoman, told The Virginian-Pilot that school rules stipulate that adults, not other children, should accompany kids who are showing possible Covid symptoms.
The strep test came back negative. The Covid results, which later came back positive, were still pending when, over the next 24 hours, Teresa stopped breathing and was rushed to a local hospital. Teresa's condition worsened, and she was transferred to Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters Norfolk, CNN reported, where she died on Sept. 27.Teresa's school district requires masks, but on the day of her death, parents were asking to drop the mask mandate.
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