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Everyone in the family knew Natalie Giorgi was allergic to peanuts. The 13-year-old Sacramento twin had been diagnosed as a child, she was careful about what she ate, and her parents knew how to use an Epi-Pen, the device that can stop a life-threatening allergic reaction with an injection of epinephrine.
But when Natalie went into anaphylactic shock after eating a treat at a summer camp in 2014, emergency measures failed and she died in her parents' arms. Her father, Dr. Louis Giorgi, later said, “We need to take simple steps to protect all of our children. There can never be another Natalie. And there should never be.”
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