Edwards said the family was doing everything they could to cope with their grief.
“I’m currently dealing with COVID and sleep deprivation, and I feel like there’s so much more I want to say, but my mind is racing all over the place between deep sadness, anger, disbelief, denial, guilt, shame , repentance, etc.,” he said.
A 23-month-old boy died of COVID at Queensland Children’s Hospital over the weekend. Credit: ninevms
“I just have to hope that there is another side, where this means something, where there is hope, where there is happiness and peace.
“I want to get there so desperately, I want to protect our son from this, I want him to know only love and joy.”
At a press conference on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Steven Miles offered his condolences to the family.
“Every death is tragic. The death of a child is terribly sad and my heart just goes out to this family and of course to our health workers who would have done everything they could to take care of this little boy “, he said.
Queensland has recorded 8,209 new cases and 64,011 active cases.
There have been 127 cases of the flu, 19 deaths related to COVID-19 with ages ranging from 50 to someone over 100.
There are 887 patients in public hospitals, of which 25 are in intensive care, while 136 patients are in private hospitals, including one in intensive care.
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Miles said hospitals were coping with the surge in cases, but admitting hospitals were feeling the pressure.
“There is no doubt that with this number of cases in the hospital, as well as the number of healthcare workers who are sick, this is having an impact on our hospitals,” he said.
“We have established wave planning for various levels of waves within a wave and we stay within the thresholds of that wave planning.
“I understand that hospitals access our private hospital beds.
“They’re rescheduling planned care where it’s safe to do so and that allows them to treat those 1,100-odd people in the hospital with COVID, as well as all the other urgent caregivers.”