A misplaced breathing tube contributed to the death of the UK’s first known child to die from Covid, a coroner has found. Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, from London died from acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by coronavirus just three days after he first tested positive in March 2020. However, hours before his death, a breathing tube was found to be in the wrong position and a consultant made the decision to leave it. The coroner said he was “satisfied” that the 13-year-old would not have died when he did “were it not for the tube misplacement.
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