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The family of baby Jonathan Zamora in Elmhurst, Queens was devastated Tuesday, trying to make sense of an illness that took their child so brutally fast.

Zefarino Zamora said his 16-month-old son was playing as usual Monday morning.

"He was fine. He was running. He was happy. Everything," said Zefarino Zamora through a translator.

But hours later, Jonathan Zamora died in Elmhurst Hospital.

Elmhurst Hospital spokesman Dario Centorcelli said the little boy died shortly after being brought in Monday night.

"He had a fever in the morning. What it was I don't know. The mother checked it the way mothers do, by putting her cheek to the baby's forehead," said Centorcelli. "Through the day the baby was eating and at night just before 9:30, she brought him in. She checked on the child and he was unresponsive."

The Department of Health took away swabs to see if the child's death was related to the H1N1 virus.

A DOH spokesman said local hospitals are not equipped to test for H1N1 flu.

"The characterization of the H1N1 strain is done at the city's public health laboratory only," said DOH Deputy Commissioner Adam Karpati.

"So in other words, your doctor can tell you whether you have the flu, but cannot tell you what kind it is. They can assume, you can guess," said Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

A family friend, Alejandro Ramirez, said the rest of the family is too upset to talk.

"The little boy was good. He was running around yesterday. It's incredible," said Ramirez.

Jonathan Zamora's three-year-old sister and one-year-old cousin were treated for mild flu-like symptoms and sent home. Hospital sources said those two children were not swabbed for possible H1N1 infection, since it is only done for people considered sick enough to be admitted.