A 2-month-old Michigan child has reportedly died from coronavirus (COVID-19).
Officials from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) said Wednesday that the child is the youngest person they know of to die from the virus.
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MDHHS says the state is “fortunate enough to have had only one death of a child under age 1” due to COVID-19.
“Our thoughts are with the family, which has experienced a terrible loss,” MDHHS said in a statement on Wednesday. “It is a sad reminder that children are not immune from COVID-19.”
The child’s identity has not been released in an effort to protect the family’s privacy, officials said.
On Friday, MDHHS released a statement explaining its standards for deaths linked to COVID-19:
"Following national standards, MDHHS considers a death to be a COVID-19-associated death if the death is due to natural causes, there is a positive COVID-19 test, and one of the following is true:
- The death is within 30 days of onset of COVID-19.
- If the death is more than 30 days from onset, the certifying physician identifies COVID-19 as a contributing factor to death.
MDHHS relies on the judgment of treating physicians in determining whether a death is associated with COVID-19."
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