Teresa Sperry, 10, was assigned the job of "class nurse," responsible for taking students to the school nurse s office about a week before she died of COVID-19.
Suffolk Public Schools officials looked into whether a Hillpoint Elementary School teacher had Teresa Sperry escort sick students to the nurse’s clinic, against the staff’s COVID-19 protocol, the week leading up to her death.
Nicole and Jeff Sperry said they were excited for a COVID-19 vaccination for kids, but heartbroken because it was authorized around a month after their daughter died.
A 10-year-old girl who died of coronavirus complications was not accompanying classmates with COVID-19 symptoms to the nurse before she got sick, a school division representative said. Suffolk Public Schools