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By Allyson Chiu

July 7, 2020 at 6:52 a.m. EDT

At just 17, Carsyn Leigh Davis had already experienced more challenges than most people face in their entire lives. From age 2, she battled a host of health issues, including cancer and a rare autoimmune disorder. But not once did Carsyn let the serious ailments get her down, her family said.

So when the high school student from Fort Myers, Fla., died last month after contracting the novel coronavirus, her death — which marked Lee County’s youngest virus-related fatality at the time — sent shock waves through the community. Touching tributes to Carsyn, often pictured smiling broadly, poured forth and thousands of dollars were donated to GoFundMe campaigns.

“Even through the ravages of Covid, fighting to breathe, she never once shed a tear, complained or expressed fear,” her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, wrote in a statement shared on one of the fundraising pages.

A medical examiner’s report recently made public, however, has raised questions about Carsyn’s case. The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner found that the immunocompromised teen went to a large church party with roughly 100 other children where she did not wear a mask and social distancing was not enforced. Then, after getting sick, nearly a week passed before she was taken to the hospital, and during that time her parents gave her hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug touted by President Trump that the Food and Drug Administration has issued warnings about, saying usage could cause potentially deadly heart rhythm problems.

Carsyn’s case, which gained renewed interest on Sunday after it was publicized by Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones, drew fierce backlash from critics, including a number of medical professionals, who condemned the actions taken by the teen’s family in the weeks before her death. Florida has more than 206,000 reported cases of coronavirus and 3,880 deaths as of early Tuesday.

In a scathing write-up on her Florida COVID Victims site, Jones described the church gathering as a “COVID Party.” She alleged that Brunton Davis took Carsyn to the event to “intentionally expose her immuno-compromised daughter to this virus.”

Brunton Davis and the church reportedly behind the event could not be reached for comment late Monday night.

As Brunton Davis wrote in the statement after Carsyn’s death, the teen did not have an “easy life,” largely because of her health complications. In addition to cancer and the autoimmune disorder, she also suffered from obesity and a nervous-system disorder that improved when she was 5, the medical examiner’s report stated.

Still, Carsyn remained active in her community, her family said. She was a member of her high school’s varsity bowling team and dedicated time to volunteering with organizations such as Special Olympics. As an honors student, she excelled in school and particularly enjoyed her AP photography class.

Carsyn’s family also noted that she was “a devout Christian and follower of Jesus,” and “actively involved in Youth Church at First Assembly of God in Ft. Myers.”

On June 10, Carsyn was one of dozens of young people who attended the church event mentioned in the report. While the report did not include specifics about the gathering, Jones shared images of a June 10 post from the First Youth Church’s Facebook page advertising an event scheduled for that night called a “Release Party.” The church’s page has since been taken down.

“Service is back and better than ever!” the post said. “There will be games, awesome giveaways, free food, a DJ and music, and the start of our new sermon series.”

The medical examiner wrote that Carsyn’s parents gave her azithromycin as a preventive measure from June 10 to 15. The antibiotic in combination with hydroxychloroquine has been floated by Trump as a potential coronavirus treatment. According to the report, Brunton Davis is a nurse and a man identified as Carsyn’s father is a physician assistant.

But while she was taking the medicine, Carsyn began feeling ill, developing a headache, sinus pressure and a mild cough, the report said. Then on June 19, Brunton Davis noticed that Carsyn “looked ‘gray’ ” as she slept, prompting the mother to hook her daughter up to oxygen normally used by Carsyn’s grandfather, who has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.

At some point, Carsyn was also given a dose of hydroxychloroquine by her parents — an action that came less than a week after the FDA pulled its emergency use authorization for that drug and chloroquine, another anti-malarial medication. A letter dated June 15 stated that the drugs “were unlikely to be effective” for covid-19 and that any potential benefits were outweighed by safety risks, including heart problems, The Washington Post’s Laurie McGinley and Carolyn Y. Johnson reported.

It remains unclear whether Carsyn had a prescription for hydroxychloroquine.

Not long after the oxygen and hydroxychloroquine were administered, Carsyn’s parents took her to a local medical center. She was later transferred to the pediatric intensive care unit at a nearby children’s hospital, where she was confirmed to have the coronavirus.

Carsyn’s parents declined to have her intubated, and she instead started receiving plasma therapy, the report said. But by June 22, her condition wasn’t improving and “intubation was required,” the medical examiner wrote.

Despite “aggressive therapy and maneuvers,” Carsyn still didn’t get better, leading Brunton Davis to request “heroic efforts” even knowing that her daughter “had low chance of meaningful survival,” according to the report.

But none of the procedures worked and Carsyn continued to deteriorate. She died shortly after 1 p.m. on June 23, two days after her 17th birthday.

“We are incredibly saddened by her passing at this young age, but are comforted that she is pain free,” Brunton Davis wrote in the GoFundMe statement.

Jones, however, argued that Carsyn’s death could have been prevented.

“I started looking into her mother, the church where the COVID party was held with more than 100 children, her health history, and who she was and I felt so angry and sad that this happened,” she told Newsweek.

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On Twitter, Jones shared images of posts from a Facebook profile with Brunton Davis’s name, which is no longer online. One post expressed support for anti-mask efforts and another criticized the methods doctors were using to treat Carsyn.

“The doctors are refusing to give her Hydroxychloriquine [sic], citing ‘new studies’ that it does not work and can be harmful. Using it is against their policy,” the post read. “This is very upsetting to me, as many of you know how I feel about that.”

On Sunday, Jones, who created the independent coronavirus dashboard after she said she was fired by the Florida Department of Health in May for refusing to make changes to how the state presented its data publicly, wrote that she was “so saddened for this girl and the loss of life.”

“Every death on this website is heartbreaking. Every minute lost in someone’s life is a tragedy,” she wrote, referring to her database. “But this one will stick with me long after this virus has torn through our communities.”

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"COVID parties": Almost certainly an urban legend

There have been stories of "#COVID19 parties," where young people intentionally try to catch #coronavirus. They are almost certainly urban legends.

Today I’m going to write about something that’s been bugging me for a couple of months now. It’s a topic that’s more of a discussion of general skepticism and critical thinking, but it’s useful to discuss, as it’s about COVID-19 stories that are, at best, implausible, unproven, and unlikely, and, at worst, urban legends. I’m referring to the phenomenon known as “COVID parties”. No doubt you’ve…

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Who is Carsyn Davis? Bio, Age, Wiki, Dies Of Coronavirus, Church Event, Carole Brunton Davis, Gofundme

Who is Carsyn Davis? Bio, Age, Wiki, Dies Of Coronavirus, Church Event, Carole Brunton Davis, Gofundme

Carsyn Davis Bio – Wiki

Carsyn Davis was an honor student, amateur photographer, and choir singer who died of COVID-19-related complications in Fort Myers, Florida after she attended a church function with about 100 other people.

Davis had a series of pre-existing conditions that her mother outlined in a lengthy statement posted to a GoFundMe page in her name. She died in a Florida hospital, but…

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Florida teen dies after conspiracy theorist mom takes her to church ‘COVID party’ and tries to treat her with Trump-approved drug: report A Florida mother allegedly took her high-risk teenage daughter to a “COVID party” at their church, tried treating the girl at home with unproven drugs when she got sick — and then hailed her as a patriot after she died. Carsyn Davis died June 23, two days after her 17th birthday, after she contracted the coronavirus, reported the News-Press, but former Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones detailed shocking claims in a medical examiner’s report about her illness. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigated the teen’s last two weeks in the medical examiner’s report, which Jones said shows her mother, Carole Brunton Davis, had taken her on June 10 to a church-sponsored event to intentionally expose her immunocompromised daughter, who had survived cancer at 2, to the potentially deadly coronavirus. More than 100 mask-free children attended the event, and Davis allegedly gave her daughter azithromycin, an anti-bacterial drug with no known benefits for fighting COVID-19, after she developed headaches, sinus pressure and a cough, Jones reported. Davis — whose Facebook page is awash in QAnon conspiracy theories, anti-vaccine and coronavirus misinformation and dubious legal theories — next put the girl on her grandfather’s oxygen machine after she “looked gray” on June 19, Jones reported. Then she gave the girl hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug touted as a cure by President Donald Trump, despite evidence of deadly side effects, and Carsyn’s condition worsened. Davis finally took her daughter to a hospital, where she was admitted to a pediatric intensive-care unit — but declined intubation until it was too late, Jones wrote. The hospital started plasma therapy on June 20 and 21, Jones reported, but Carsyn’s cardio-respiratory system was too seriously damaged and she died June 22. “We are incredibly saddened by her passing at this young age, but are comforted that she is pain free,” Davis told the News-Press after her daughter’s death. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCUXIDJHcLJ/?igshid=t8t97k28lb2q

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Who is Carole Brunton Davis Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Instagram, Twitter, Unknown FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW

Who is Carole Brunton Davis Wiki, Biography, Age, Net Worth, Instagram, Twitter, Unknown FACTS YOU NEED TO KNOW

Carole Brunton Davis Wiki – Carole Brunton Davis Biography

Carole Brunton Davis is a registered nurse in Fort Myers, Florida, who is under fire because of the at-home care she gave to her daughter, Carsyn, who died of COVID-19 related complications after attending a 100-person church party. The latter claim is found in the medical examiner’s report, which also describes how Carsyn Davis’s parents…

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Ellie Hall at BuzzFeed News (07.07.2020): 

A medically vulnerable 17-year-old Florida girl died of complications due to COVID-19 after she attended a church function where social distancing was not practiced and was then treated with hydroxychloroquine by her mother and stepfather before seeking medical attention, according to the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner.

Carsyn Leigh Davis, who had a "complex medical history" including an autoimmune disorder known as opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome, died June 23 at 1:06 p.m, according to the medical examiner's report. Davis had turned 17 two days before her death.

The official medical examiner investigation report into her death says that she likely contracted the virus on June 10 during an event with "100 other children" at her church, and details the treatment she received from her nurse mother and physician's assistant stepfather before they sought emergency medical care.

According to the report, on the day of the church event, Davis's mother and stepfather began treating her with the antibiotic azithromycin.

Davis began to show symptoms associated with the coronavirus on June 13. Her parents believed her symptoms were a result of a sinus infection, the report states, adding that on June 19, her mother noted the teen looked "gray" while sleeping. By that time, Davis also had dangerously low blood oxygen saturation levels and her parents administered a dose of hydroxychloroquine, a drug touted by President Trump to combat the coronavirus but which the FDA has not recommended for treatment of COVID patients.

Later that day, according to the medical examiner, Davis's parents took her to an emergency medical care center, where she tested positive for COVID-19 and was transferred to the Golisano Children’s Hospital.

Against medical advice, Davis's mother refused for three days to let her daughter be intubated, the report states. By the time she was intubated on June 22, her condition had deteriorated to such a level that she needed to be airlifted to a pediatric hospital in Miami for emergency treatment.

She died at the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital on June 23.

Many of these details in the report of Davis's death are corroborated by social media posts from the teen's church, the First Assembly of God, and her family members, which have been deleted in the past two days as Davis's story attracted more media attention. These posts were seen and preserved by BuzzFeed News.

The First Assembly of God, the First Youth Church, the youth ministry associated with the Davis family's church, and the Davis family did not respond to multiple requests for comment from BuzzFeed News.

The circumstances surrounding Davis's death were first reported Sunday by geographer and former Florida Department of Health coronavirus database manager Rebekah Jones on her website FloridaCOVIDVictims.com. In the post, Jones cited a medical examiner investigation report into the teenager's death that she had obtained. She later uploaded the document to the website on Monday night.

Veronica Melton-Lamar, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Department, confirmed to BuzzFeed News in an email Tuesday that the document Jones posted is the official report into Davis' death.

On June 10, the date listed on the medical examiner's report, First Youth Church, the youth ministry associated with the Davis family's church, Assembly of God Church in Ft. Myers, held a widely-advertised youth event.

Mixing Christian Fundamentalism with COVID denialism is a toxic brew that led to the death of Carsyn Leigh Davis. 

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Who is Carole Brunton Davis? Bio, Age, Wiki, Daughter’s Died of COVID-19, Carsyn Davis, GoFundMe

Who is Carole Brunton Davis? Bio, Age, Wiki, Daughter’s Died of COVID-19, Carsyn Davis, GoFundMe

Carole Brunton Davis Bio – Wiki

Carole Brunton Davis is a registered nurse in Fort Myers, Florida, who is under fire because of the at-home care she gave to her daughter, Carsyn, who died of COVID-19 related complications after attending a 100-person church party. The latter claim is found in the medical examiner’s report, which also describes how Carsyn Davis’s parents tried to treat her with…