Nursing Student Tweets, "I Think I'm Dying", Then Dies
On September 12th at 10:03 pm Andrea Jaime tweeted, “105 fever I think I'm dying." The Georgetown nursing student died three days later.
- September 15,2014 | ISSN 1940-6967
- American Society of Registered Nurses ®
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