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'He's Been Through Hell:' NJ Mom Details 9-Year-Old Son’s Battle With Rare COVID Complication 'He's Been Through Hell:' NJ Mom Details 9-Year-Old Son’s Battle With Rare COVID Complication
'He's Been Through Hell:' NJ Mom Details 9-Year-Old Son’s Battle With Rare COVID Complication A New Jersey mom is speaking out after her 9-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare and potentially fatal COVID-19 complication that landed him in the hospital. Michele Mi says her son, Johnny, a third-grader in Mt. Olive, was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Dec. 23 but showed no symptoms. “I thought we were very lucky,” she writes in a Jan. 20 Facebook post. Two and a half weeks went by before Johnny — who had already been quarantined — woke up vomiting with a spiked temperature, said Mi, who rushed him to a pediatrician. After Johnny’s flu test came back negative, the pediatrician told Mi ab…

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by Valerie Musson