According to her family, an 18-year-old woman from Illinois died a few days after contracting the coronavirus.
Sarah Simental, who lived in the suburb of Tinley Park in Chicago, died of the virus a day after Christmas, Cook County officials said.
The virus “literally just ate her through,” the woman’s mother, Deborah Simental, told Chicago WLS-TV.
“No parent needs to watch their child go through it,” she added.
Sarah Simental poses for a Christmas photo with her dog.
(Thanks to Deborah Simental)
Simental said her daughter experienced symptoms for the first time last Wednesday and tested positive for COVID-19. She was admitted to the hospital and flown to the University of Chicago Medical Center, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The woman died Sunday of acute hypoxic respiratory failure and non-traumatic cerebral hemorrhage due to the infection, the country’s medical investigator said.
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“She was a healthy young lady who had just turned 18 and had the world in her hands,” her mother told the Tribune.
She said her daughter is an example that this can happen to the youngest and healthiest people … It’s real. ‘
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A funeral for Sarah is scheduled for Wednesday at Lawn Funeral Home in Orland Park, Illinois, according to her obituary.