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CORRECTED: Florida Teen Dies of Covid-19 After Pro-Trump Mother Gives Her Hydroxychloroquine to Treat it

CORRECTION: The church did not call this party a “COVID Party”. It was called a release party. Snopes determine the source, Rebekah Jones, was not credible in calling the party a “COVID Party.”

Furthermore, while Davis did attend the party, there is no report that she caught covid at that party.

From Snopes: It’s not clear how or where Davis contracted COVID-19. According to the medical examiner’s report, she first developed symptoms three days after attending a church event with 100 other children. However, COVID-19 symptoms can take between two and 14 days to appear after exposure, so it cannot be assumed that Davis caught the virus at the June 10 church event.

We apologize for the error and promise to do better. Nicole James, Editor.

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One mother in Florida allegedly decided to take her high-risk teen daughter to church “COVID party, and then, when the girl became sickened due to coronavirus, tried to treat her at home with unproven drugs.

Then, when 17-year-old Carsyn Davis died just two days after her birthday on June 23, the woman lauded her daughter as a patriot.

But former data scientist Rebekah Jones took to Twitter and detailed shocking claims from a medical examiner about what this poor girl went through.

“There’s a lot of grief to unpack with Carsyn’s death, and some of it is angering, controversial, and even political.”

“This is your trigger warning.”

In her young life, Carsyn had survived cancer, said her mother Carole Brunton Davis, and was a kind person with a huge heart. She’d lost her father at an early age, and besides dealing with cancer, she was immuno-compromised.

So it was especially stupid that her anti-vaxxer mother took her to this June 10 “party” at her church, where 100 kids who weren’t wearing masks were present. And according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as detailed by a public Medical Examiner, the last two weeks of this young girl’s life were hell.

After coronavirus set in, her mother gave her azithromycin, an antibiotic that has no known benefit for fighting COVID-19, Raw Story reports. Young Carsyn had developed headaches, sinus pressure, and a cough, Jones said.

In the past, Davis apparently posted all sorts of anti-vaxxer QAnon Theory nonsense on her Facebook page, which has since been taken down. But here’s an example, as noted by Raw Story.

When the azithromycin failed to work, she put the girl on her grandfather’s oxygen machine because she “looked gray” on June 19, Jones wrote.

And when that failed to work, did she take Carsyn to the hospital? No, of course not.

“When that still did nothing to combat the cough, the headaches, the sinus infection, her mother started giving her hydroxychloroquine — a dangerous drug that clinical studies have shown makes a person MORE likely to die of COVID, but was recklessly touted by President Trump for months as a “supposed cure.”

Her mother finally relented and took her daughter to the hospital, and she wound up being admitted in the pediatric intensive-care unit. But even though she was unable to breathe on her own, her mother declined to allow her to be intubated.

In a last-ditch effort to save the girl, hospital staff began administering plasma therapy on June 20 and 21, Jones wrote but Carsyn’s cardio-pulmonary system was fatally damaged and the girl died on June 22.

Rather than expressing any regret over letting her daughter suffer and giving the girl a drug that may have lead to her death, Jones notes, Davis instead described how “patriotic” her daughter was. She went on to say that her daughter was involved in Operation Christmas Child and had helped organize Christmas card writing for Ten Thousand for The Troops.

Poor Carsyn. She was a kind soul who didn’t deserve a mother like this.

 

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