PENDLETON â An infant boy born prematurely last month in Pendleton died the same day he tested positive for COVID-19, making him Oregonâs youngest victim of the deadly coronavirus.
David James Wadley Jr. is the first Oregon child age 9 or younger to die of COVID-19. His death was one of six coronavirus fatalities reported on Thursday, Feb. 18.
Ashley Wadley, his mother, was 31 weeks pregnant when she tested positive for COVID-19 about Jan. 11 or 12. She told
The Oregonian/OregonLive she first lost her sense of taste and smell â and that she was bedridden with a high fever one day later.
Doctors told Wadley over the phone that she had âno chanceâ of passing COVID-19 to the baby, she said.
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UMATILLA, Ore. (KEPR) The grief-stricken mother of a baby boy who died of COVID-19 shortly after birth says she never got the chance to meet her little son. Ashley Wadley says that her son, David James Wadley Jr. , was prematurely born. The young boy fought for two days before testing positive for COVID-19 and passing away. According to Ashley, she tested positive for COVID-19 on Jan. 11. She wasn't able to get out of bed and she had a high.