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The coronavirus has caused 1,695 anonymous deaths in France and one with the first name, Julie. Little is known about this young woman. Nothing explains his death. At 16, without previous pathologies, he is the earliest victim of the epidemic. He died at the Necker Hospital in Paris, after falling ill at his home on the outskirts of the capital. "I just had a little cough a week ago," said Sabine, her mother.

The general director of Health, Jérôme Salomon, could only verify a generality when reporting Thursday night of his death in the daily balance: "Severe forms in young patients are extremely rare . They occur from time to time for multiple reasons "

Statistical rarity will bring no comfort to Sabine, Julie's mother. "It is unlivable," he told the Agence France Presse. Heartbroken between losing "the meaning of life" and the obligation to "move on".

According to her account, "Julie had a little cough last week." He administered syrup, herbs, and inhalations. On Saturday I had some trouble breathing. Nothing serious, apparently. Then phlegm and cough. So on Monday Sabine took her daughter Julie to the general practitioner.

The doctor appreciates a respiratory deficiency and calls the emergency room. Firefighters arrive, dressed in suits, masks and gloves. They put Julie in an oxygen mask and transfer her to the nearest Longjumeau hospital.

The mother is going home. When he calls the hospital in the afternoon they inform him that they have done a scanner and the covid-19 test. "Nothing serious," they tell him. However, at night, the girl suffers from respiratory failure and is transferred to the Necker Hospital in Paris, a referral center.

Sabine visits Tuesday afternoon in her blue-walled room with teddy bears because " at 16 they still treat you in pediatrics ." He finds his daughter anxiously. He talks but he gets tired.

In the Necker they have done two tests. Negatives. "They open the door to her room, the nurses take off her protective blouse and the doctor raises his thumb to tell me that things are going well," Sabine recalls in AFP. He says goodbye until tomorrow and returns home.

In the evening the results of the first test arrive, done in Longjumeau. Positive. "You don't believe it. They are said to have been wrong. Why are these results so late?" Towards 12:30 on Wednesday, another call: "Come quickly." Sabine understands gravity. Gets scared. At one in the morning he arrives at the Necker. Julie is dead. "In an hour . " "It was already gray." She takes her daughter's hand and notices "the skin is still warm".

Her sister, Manon, strokes her forehead. "Her lungs have not held up. The doctors have done everything they can to wake her up but it has been useless," she told Le Parisien. "You have to stop believing that this only touches the elderly . No one is invincible against this mutant virus."

The mother has stated that her deceased daughter did not have any relevant prior illness. In jargon, no comorbidity factor.

Julie was schooled in a Corbel-Essone licice. I wanted to do a professional baccalaureate. "Julie liked to dance, sing, make people laugh ... Everything, except stay still at home" said one of her friends.

Julie's family managed to keep the bracelet and the christening chain. Everything else, according to protocol, had to be cremated. The rules in force in France impose a maximum of 10 people at his funeral to be held in the coming days. "We will have to choose who goes," says her sister Manon regretfully.

Julie's remains will remain in the Necker's morgue until then. "It will not be dressed or made up," says the sister. And, along with his mother: "It is difficult to fit in."

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