Adalyn Graviss from Knoxville, Tennessee, had a fever on the morning February 4 and an at-home test came back positive for COVID-19. She died on February 7.
Jennifer Graviss(NEW YORK) A Tennessee family is speaking out to share memories of their 7-year-old daughter, who died Feb. 7, less than 72 hours after testing positive for COVID-19. "She was just a happy, healthy, normal, beautiful soul," Jennifer Graviss said of her daughter, Adalyn. "She was just so sweet, an amazing kid." Jennifer Graviss and her husband Adam Graviss, of Knoxville, Tennessee, said Adalyn, whom they described as an active and healthy child, had been feeling fine until early in the morning of Feb. 4, when she complained of feeling hot. When they took her temperature and saw it was 102 degrees, they said they gave her an at-home COVID-19 test, on which she tested positive. Adalyn, a second-grade student, stayed home from school that day and appeared to be feeling fine, according to her parents. It was not until the following night, they said, that she started struggling to walk and speak. "It was right around the nine o'clock hour when