🇺🇸 750,000 COVID dead: Staggering
Uncle Tyrone went first. On his way to the hospital in South Florida, he implored his niece Lisa Wilson: “I want the vaccine.”
“You can’t get it now,” Wilson told Tuyrono “Tyrone” Moreland, who was 48
He died days later washingtonpost.com/health/750000-…
Uncle Tyrone went first. On his way to the hospital in South Florida, he implored his niece Lisa Wilson: “I want the vaccine.”
“You can’t get it now,” Wilson told Tuyrono “Tyrone” Moreland, who was 48
He died days later washingtonpost.com/health/750000-…
Wilson’s grandmother, Lillie Mae Dukes Moreland, who raised Lisa and nine of her own children, was next. She’d decided against the vaccine. It was too new, she thought. Plus, some members of the family had counseled her against getting the shot. At 89, they said, she was too old.
In late August, she came down with covid-19, was taken to the hospital the day after Tyrone’s funeral and died less than 24 hours later.
The next day, Aug. 31, one of Wilson’s cousins died of covid complications. A few days later, another cousin, and then a third.
The next day, Aug. 31, one of Wilson’s cousins died of covid complications. A few days later, another cousin, and then a third.
And on Sept. 14, yet a fourth of Lisa’s cousins succumbed.
In all six members of the same family - all unvaccinated - died in three weeks.
In all six members of the same family - all unvaccinated - died in three weeks.
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