A Georgia health care worker died from coronavirus, and her 4-year-old daughter was alone in the home with her dead body for 12-16 hours, People Magazine reports.
Diedre Wilkes, 42, had worked as a mammogram technician at Piedmont Newnan Hospital in Newnan. Last Thursday, she was found dead in her home by police conducting a welfare check. Authorities estimate that she had been dead for 12-16 hours.
The young child was placed into the custody of her father.
Coweta County Coroner Richard Hawk says that the girl was likely exposed to the coronavirus herself “in some capacity,” although it’s unclear if she’s become sick with the virus.
Also unclear is whether or not Wilkes actually died of COVID-19, the respiratory illness that is caused by the novel coronavirus.
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