4-Year-Old Texas Girl Dies of COVID After Unvaccinated Mom Contracts Virus: 'She Was Beautiful'

Kali Cook.Photo: GoFundMe

A 4-year-old girl from Galveston, Texas, died in her sleep last weekafter contracting COVID-19, her family said.

Kali Cook, a preschooler, started showing symptoms in the early morning of Sept. 6. Just over 24 hours later, at 7 a.m. the next day, she died of the virus, her mother, Karra Harwood,told theHouston Chronicle.

“It took her so fast,” Harwood said.

Cook’s symptoms started after her mom, who is unvaccinated,tested positive for COVID-19on Sept. 6. Harwood said she came home and isolated from the rest of their family, which includes her fiancé and Cook’s brother and 5-month-old sister, both of whom also contracted COVID-19.

“I tried to stay away from her and didn’t want her and my other kids to get it,” Harwoodtold Galveston County’sThe Daily News.

But Cook, who had no known preexisting conditions, also got sick andquickly succumbed to the virus. She is the youngest resident in Galveston County to die from COVID-19.

“Kali was perfectly fine, and then she was gone,” Harwood told theHouston Chronicle. As the family continues to isolate at home, she’s now worried that her 5-month-old daughter won’t make it through the virus.

Harwood said she now regrets not getting vaccinated.

“I was one of the people that was anti, I was against it,” she toldThe Daily News. “Now, I wish I never was.”

“She was so funny and sassy,” Harwood said. “She wasn’t your average little girl. She’d rather play with worms and frogs than wear bows. She was just so pretty and full of life … she was beautiful.”

Harwood and her fiancé have been out of work during the pandemic, and shestarted a GoFundMeto help pay for their bills.

source: people.com