Deaths Show Schools Need Power of the EpiPen: Margaret Carlson
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Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- All children’s deaths are tragic,but some are absurdly so. First-grader Ammaria Johnson had justreturned to her Virginia grade school after the Christmasholiday and inadvertently ate a peanut at recess. Feeling sick,Ammaria went to a teacher who rushed her to the school clinic,where someone called 911.
By the time the ambulance arrived, Ammaria was inanaphylactic shock and cardiac arrest. She died shortlythereafter at Chippenham Hospital in Richmond. A $112 device,the most common of which is called an EpiPen, could’ve savedher.