A 4-year-old Galveston County girl got a fever. She died of COVID a few hours later, in her sleep Nora Mishanec ,
Staff writer Sep. 9, 2021 Updated: Sep. 11, 2021 11:10 a.m.
1of 2 Kali Cook, 4, is the youngest person to die from COVID in Galveston County.
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2of 2 Kristine Galang, a fellow at UTMB Galveston's ICU prepares to go into a COVID-19 patient's room on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021.
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Kali Cook was running around her Bacliff home Monday, gleefully batting the fake red eyelashes her grandmother had given her for Labor Day. By 2 a.m., she had a fever. By morning she was gone.
The 4-year old died of COVID-19 in her sleep Tuesday at 7 a.m., her mother Karra Harwood told the Chronicle.
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Nora Mishanec is a Hearst fellow for the Houston Chronicle.
She previously worked on the breaking news team at The San Francisco Chronicle, and as a reporter at The Register-Star, the nation's second-oldest newspaper.