A college report from Virginia's Suffolk Public Faculties concluded 10-year-old Teresa Sperry wasn't uncovered to COVID-19 as "class nurse," however her mother and father keep their daughter was doubtlessly put in hurt's manner.
A couple of week earlier than she died of COVID-19, Teresa was given the job of "class nurse," chargeable for strolling college students to the nurse's workplace at Hillpoint Elementary Faculty. Her mother and father criticized the varsity for failing to get their permission earlier than giving their daughter the job and dismissed a report that discovered she did not escort sick youngsters to the nurse's workplace earlier than contracting the virus herself.
"I really feel that the investigation report is extremely incomplete," Jeff Sperry, Teresa's father, advised the Virginian-Pilot.
The report, based on Teresa's mom Nicole Sperry, is simply three pages lengthy when printed out, a size that the mother and father consider is indicative of the less-than-thorough nature of the contact tracing investigation.
Through the investigation into Teresa's dying, investigators interviewed the varsity nurse and Teresa's instructor, who was described as a long-term substitute. Each stated Teresa was despatched to the nurse's workplace twice on September 21–as soon as to escort a scholar with an arm damage and as soon as to retrieve an inhaler. Teresa "by no means" escorted college students that had COVID-19-like signs based on the report obtained by the Virginian-Pilot.
The college nurse additionally stated Teresa by no means got here contained in the clinic. She was required to sit down outdoors in the principle workplace and the report stated there have been no college students with suspected COVID-19 signs despatched to the clinic between September 7 and September 23, the day after Teresa went to the nurse for a headache.
Her father, nevertheless, denied that the varsity was freed from blame simply because his daughter did not go contained in the clinic. He advised the Virginian-Pilot that the report did not point out anybody reviewed safety digicam footage so they do not know who his daughter was round whereas she sat outdoors the clinic.
"There may be nothing in it about interviewing the safety guard, who would have seen my daughter going to the clinic. They didn't interview anybody else that might have seen her," Jeff stated.
Newsweek reached out to Suffolk County Public Faculties for remark however didn't obtain a response in time for publication.
On the time of Teresa's dying, each Jeff and Nicole had been vaccinated towards COVID-19 however it might be a month earlier than Teresa and her youthful brother had been eligible. On September 22, Teresa had a headache after which developed a fever the subsequent day, based on CNN. They organized for Teresa to get examined for COVID on September 27, however the day earlier than, her cough compelled her to throw up so the mother and father took the 10-year-old to the emergency room.
"They did her chest X-ray and once they got here again, they stated that there was no indicators of COVID pneumonia, her lungs had been good, stunning. They did not appear involved," Nicole advised CNN.
Nonetheless, inside 24 hours of returning residence, Teresa stopped respiratory. She was rushed to a neighborhood hospital after which transferred to the Youngsters's Hospital of The King's Daughters Norfolk, the place she was pronounced lifeless.
Whereas the varsity maintains that Teresa's "class nurse" function did not expose her to sick youngsters, her mother and father stated that if the varsity requested for his or her permission, they'd have stated no. Jeff advised the Virginian-Pilot that having a toddler stroll college students to the nurse's workplace throughout a pandemic is "insane."
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