She was healthy, she only had a cough

“We have to stop believing that all this concerns only the elderly. Nobody is invincible against this virus ”is the heartbreaking message of the older sister of Julie, a 16-year-old girl killed by the coronavirus in France and first ascertained minor victim in the country. An even more excruciating death because Julie was a healthy teenager who had no particular disease before being attacked by the virus. Everything happened within a week, as they tell a Le Parisien family members who are now in quarantine at home.

“Julie only had a slight cough last week. Then this weekend got worse and a cold started so on Monday we went to a general practitioner and it was there that she was diagnosed with a respiratory disorder. Before she had not had any particular illnesses “reconstructed her sister. Despite hospitalization, from that moment on her clinical situation precipitated. First hospitalized and then transferred overnight to a specialized medical center in the capital Paris, the teenager died on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday.

The student, who attended high school in Essonne, was attacked on an artificial respirator in intensive care on Tuesday evening but every effort to save her proved to be in vain. “Julie loved dancing, singing, making people laugh, everything except staying still and doing nothing” say friends shocked by the tragedy. The news took the local community by surprise that he will also have to do without funerals allowed by law only to a maximum of ten people in contrast to the spread of the pandemic.

The story of Julie’s mother, who died at 16 from the coronavirus

“Losing a child is something unbearable but we must continue”, the words of Sabine, the girl’s mother. “Julie had only had a little cough for a week. She had taken a syrup, something herbal, had had inhalations,” said the woman. On Saturday he began to feel short of breath: “Nothing sensational, he had difficulty catching his breath”. Then continuous bouts of coughing and a visit to the family doctor who invites her to call the hospital. The mother returns home after the hospitalization of her daughter but shortly after they warn her that a lung scanner has revealed problems: “Nothing serious”. At night, however, the girl is caught by respiratory failure and urgently transferred to the Paris pediatric hospital, the Necker, where they subject her to a tampon. It ends in resuscitation, the mother goes to see her and Julie says, “I have chest pains …”. The first results of the swab are negative, the mother returns home calmly, but the next day the result of the first test is rectified: Julie is positive at Covid-19. The doctors, who in the light of the first negative result had cured her without masks and protections, intubate her when she is now without knowledge. Shortly after death. “A very rare event at this age “, stress the health workers. Since Health Director Jerome Salomon announced the teenager’s death at the usual evening press conference, France has been in shock even more.