A 15-Year-Old Kentucky Girl Beat Cancer Last Summer, Dies of Covid-19 This Month
Alexa Rose Veit was a fierce fighter. The 15-year-old Kentucky girl born with Down Syndrome was diagnosed with leukemia in July 2019. Just weeks later, she went into remission. “On day 30 of a two-year treatment plan, she’d beaten cancer,” Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said in a news conference after receiving permission from the teen’s