‘I Died and Came Back,’ Says 12-Year-Old Coronavirus Survivor

(COVINGTON, La.) — As her desperately sick daughter was being airlifted to a hospital, Jennifer Daly was thinking about all the parts of life that still lay ahead for her 12-year-old and whether she’d ever experience them: Would she get to fall in love? Would she get the chance to get married and have her own children? Driving across the causeway that separates the family’s home north of Lake Pontchartrain from the New Orleans hospital where their daughter was taken — with what was later determined to be a coronavirus infection — she was forced to imagine a life without her Juliet. Read more: Why Children Seem to Be Less Affected by the Coronavirus “She’s the sweetest girl. She’s the sweetest girl in the whole world. And she does not deserve this. And I was praying to God … just please, please help, please help me,” said Jennifer, speaking from the family’s Covington home Thursday, with her husband Sean and their now-recovered daughter. As Juliet and her 5-year-old brother spar with each other using pool noodles, it’s hard to imagine that just last month Juliet was fighting for her life. At one point she had a heart attack and doctors had to perform CPR for two minutes before she came back. “I died and came back,” Juliet said. Gerald Herbert—APJuliet Daly, 12, plays with her brother Dominic, 5, in their family home in Covington, La. on April 30, 2020. Her coronavirus journey didn&rsquo...
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