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4-month-old daughter of NY firefighter dies of coronavirus

 


A New York firefighter and his wife are in mourning after a baby girl, nearly five months old, died of a coronavirus complication.

New York Post reported Jerrella Santa (30 years old) has just finished his first shift as a firefighter when he had to rush to meet his family in the emergency room at the end of March. His daughter, Jayna Talilla Santa, had a fever.

She was soon hospitalized because she was born with a heart disease.

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“When I got to the car there was a letter from my mother-I know I couldn’t call because I’m a new guy-she is there to go to the ER”・ Santa Said to the post Thursday. “That’s one way to start my career.”

Lindsay La Santa, the mother of Jay Nathalie, said her daughter had been diagnosed with bronchitis and spent the night. She was tested twice on COVID-19 before she realized she had the virus.

Post reported The doctor doesn’t know if she was sick because she was in a hospital setting, or if she had been sick all the time.

“We don’t know how she got it,” said baby grandmother, Wanda La Santa. I told NBC today.

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“She was very weak and lethargic,” said Lindsey La Santa. “From April to the last breath, she was just paralyzed.”

Jay-Natalie’s parents were only allowed one at a time, so we visited them one at a time with a 12-hour shift.

Her numbers stabilized, but things quickly changed. On April 20, The Post reported that baby vitality had plummeted.

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“We had hope … her numbers were beautiful and her oxygen levels were good,” said Lindsey La Santa. “10 minutes later he called me …” She has no pulse. “

Jay Nathalie died a week before he was five months old, The Post reported.

Post reported The infant’s father dressed her up in a glittering rose gold dress to dress her at the FDNY graduation ceremony postponed for the coronavirus pandemic scheduled for March 27.

“She looked like a princess,” Jerrell La Santa told Post. “We didn’t want her in a body bag so she had a very beautiful white little coffin.”

Parents held an informal ceremony this week at a funeral home owned by Jay Nathalie’s godfather.

FDNY Hispanic Society to which Gerre La Santa belongs “I called her the title” Warrior Princess “to her father Gerell for her fighting spirit against the dreaded covid-19 virus.” Said in a statement. “Sleep peacefully and God will bless you. Keep the La Santa family nearby in prayer and for peace in this difficult time.”

Ah GoFundMe has been set up for the family. It raised over $ 40,000 before it was closed.

Read “Jena Tallie Santa was a boss !!!” about fundraising. “She knew that mom and dad were wrapping her pinky.”

A casket funeral is scheduled for May 2.