A Chicago mother-of-three has died from coronavirus a week after she delivered a healthy baby girl and was released from a hospital, despi...
A Chicago mother-of-three has died from coronavirus a week after she delivered a healthy baby girl and was released from a hospital, despite suffering symptoms and being tested for the virus.
Unique Clay, 31, gave birth to a baby girl on April 30, but suffered a fever during labor and was tested for COVID-19.
Family members want to know why she was still sent home with instructions to take Ibuprofen, despite being confirmed to have the virus and having a newborn baby to take care of.
The family say Clay's baby daughter appears to be healthy.
Postal worker Clay, who died on Tuesday, was Chicago's first letter carrier to be killed by the virus.
The University of Chicago Hospital would not comment on Clay's case, citing privacy laws, but extended their sympathy to her family, WFLD reports.
Unique Clay, a 31-year-old Chicago mother of three, died after testing positive for the coronavirus and giving birth to a healthy baby girl
Clay also had worked for the US Postal Service and was Chicago's first letter carrier to succumb to the virus
Alan Brown, Clay's father, described the heartache and confusion that came after his daughter's passing.
'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,' he told WFLD.
The World Health Organization, or WHO, initially warned against prescribing the anti-inflammatory because it may theoretically strengthen the ability of coronavirus to cause infection, or worsen symptoms.
However, WHO has since reversed its stance on the painkiller due to a lack of evidence, and now does not recommend against using ibuprofen.
'It hurts. It hurts, it honestly do,' Dajah Brown, Clay's sister, told WFLD.
'I don't understand why she was sent home that quick, then being instructed to take medication that feeds into the disease. It was just not handled at all. Someone needs to be held accountable,' said Dajah Brown.
Alan Brown, Clay's father, described the heartache and confusion that came after his daughter's passing: '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'
'It hurts. It hurts, it honestly do,' said Clay's sister Dajah Brown, reacting to her passing and demanding answers. 'Someone needs to be held accountable,' she says
Friends praised Clay as a mom and someone who wanted to make others happy.
'I don't know I would just like people to know that she was really, really a nice girl and she just gave her all to family and I just wish this had never happened,' said Liz Price, Clay's hair stylist and friend says.
Colleagues at the Irving Park Post Office where Clay worked the last two years released balloons into the sky Saturday in her memory.
More than 30 mail carriers in Chicago have tested positive for coronavirus. Clay (pictured) was the first letter carrier in the city to succumb to the virus
Colleagues at the Irving Park Post Office where Clay worked the last two years (pictured) released balloons into the sky Saturday in her memory
More than 30 mail carriers in Chicago have tested positive for coronavirus.
Illinois state has had 76,008 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, and 3,362 deaths
Across the country, there have been 1,348,761 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, with 79,892 killed.
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