STRONGSVILLE – When 17-yr-outdated son Brycen Gray’s signs speedily worsened, his mom, Tara Gray, didn’t know he had COVID-19.

Thinking back again on it, the Strongsville resident believes that he contracted the virus someday among April 16 and 18, when he was with his higher faculty friends — practically a single week just before he died by suicide.

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Grey mentioned her son, who was never identified with a psychological illness, died following the infectious virus triggered him to create a psychiatric ailment. 

“Hindsight is 2020, ” explained Grey. “Had I known he had COVID-19 and this was going to be our future and we had much more information and facts, I would never ever have left him at home alone.”

Practically 7 months soon after his demise, Gray’s household is contacting for federal exploration resources to research COVID-19 and the mental well being and neurological results it has on the human overall body.

“Brycen was not frustrated. There ended up no indications. I know children can disguise it,” Gray said. “It has everyone shaken.”

‘It’s a nightmare’

When her son to start with became unwell on Monday, April 19, she was not shocked. 

Before that day he had received his second BioNTech Pfizer vaccine, and she anticipated that he would come to feel unwell like he was just after his 1st shot. 

But just about every working day his affliction deteriorated.

By Wednesday he couldn’t flavor or odor, quickly made a fever and had significant diarrhea — common signs or symptoms of coronavirus. Even though he could sleep, he didn’t eat or consume, she stated.