A teenager who died from COVID-19 this year passed in a much more graphic manner than initially thought … because the walls of his hospital room were drenched in blood.
13-year-old Peyton Baumgarth‘s coronavirus death in late October was well-documented, but photos recently shared by his mother, Stephanie Franek, show just how gruesome his final moments were as doctors and hospital staff tried life-saving measures that ultimately failed.
The kid had been put on a ventilator after going to a St. Louis hospital. Sure enough, he’d contracted the virus … but his condition went from bad to worse in just days — leaving him in need of a therapy called ECMO to level out his plummeting oxygen levels.
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