‘WHY WAS SHE SENT HOME?’
Family want answers after postal worker, 31, dies of COVID days after testing positive while giving birth
THE family of a postal worker who died of coronavirus just a week after giving birth is questioning why the new mother was ever released from the hospital.
Unique Clay, 31, tested positive for the during birth on April 30 at UChicago Medicine in , ABC News.
5
But despite her diagnosis, Clay’s family
The mother-of-three’s father, Alan Brown, told ABC News: "The doctor that , I want to know if he would've sent his daughter home if she tested positive.”
"They just dropped the ball."
Clay is believed to be the first US postal worker to die from coronavirus in .
5
Her family said she had asthma — and they don’t think she .
Clay's child seems to be in good health, the family said.
UChicago told ABC News in a statement it extends its deepest sympathy to Clay’s family, but officials wouldn’t comment further, due to patient privacy laws.
"My sister is not here and it hurts… it's heartbreaking," Clay's sister, Dajah Brown, said on Good Morning America.
5
5
She : “It hurts. It hurts. It honestly do.”
Clay’s friend, Liz Price, said the 31-year-old shouldn’t have died.
I don’t know. I would just like people to know that she was really, really a nice girl.”
“She just gave her all to family, and I just wish this had never happened.”
Alan Brown said that when Clay was in labor last month, “she was running a fever, and they gave her the test for the COVID.”
“When they did let her go home, they gave her ibuprofen, and we were told from watching the news that that feeds the virus itself. You’re supposed to give them Tylenol.”
5
MOST READ IN NEWS
“I don’t understand why she was sent home that quick, then being instructed to take medication that feeds into the disease,” Dajah Brown said.
“It was just not handled at all. Someone needs to be held accountable.”
, people with moderate to severe asthma might be at higher risk “of getting very sick from COVID-19.”
Topics