6-Year-Old Girl Dies After Testing Positive For COVID-19

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A 6-year-old girl from west Tennessee has become one of the youngest people in the country to die after testing positive for COVID-19.

in Madison County and she leaves behind a grieving family stunned by her sudden loss.

Gillian Morse passed away on August 4th after visiting the doctor, who told her mother, Priscilla Morse, that the child “had a viral bug” and “to let her rest and eat as many popsicles and slushies as she wanted,” she wrote in a blog post according to theletting friends and family know of Gillian’s tragic death. “She went to sleep and she died and I don’t even want to breathe anymore without her.”

Jackson-Madison County Health Department Director Kim Tedford confirmed the little girl’s death in their press briefing Wednesday morning. A family friend started aThe Morse family adopted Gillian from Ukraine at age three and detailed their journey in multiple family blogs, according to the. The family has multiple children adopted internationally. “She had such a rough start to her short life, living unloved, unwanted in an orphanage in Ukraine,” said father David Morse in a Facebook post.

“I got to kiss my Gigi yesterday on the last time I would see her alive and we did the ‘more.’ I just love her so much. We are all so devastated. She now walks with Jesus. No more epilepsy, no more autism. She is my heart,” he said., a 7-year-old boy in the Savannah, Georgia area became the youngest person in the state to die from the virus. The Georgia Department of Health announced the sad news yesterday as part of their daily briefing.

 

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I am so sorry for the family! Heartbreaking! RIP 💕💕

That is heartbreaking.

rest in peace

That's truly so sad.

This is heartbreaking.

Im gutted...

The article makes it sound like she was never tested for Covid.

Not to downplay the sadness of this tragedy....but this child had “severe medical issues”.....

💔

This pisses me off and breaks my heart.

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