'Perfectly Healthy' Girl, 15, Dies From COVID Two Days After Positive Test
On 5/7/21 at 6:44 AM EDT
A fifteen-year-old girl from Illinois has died from COVID-19 just two days after testing positive for the disease.
Dykota Morgan, a freshman at Bolingbrook High School, had recently celebrated her fifteenth birthday. But on Sunday, the teen told her parents that she was not feeling good.
"Sunday, we were out early and she called us and said she woke up feeling dizzy and weak and she was coughing on the phone," Krystal Morgan, the girl's mother, told WGN9.
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The family said their daughter, who excelled in school and athletics, had no known pre-existing conditions and had been perfectly healthy until recently, although she had complained of a headache on Saturday, CBS Chicago reported.