How close did Covid death come to you and yours?
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My mother's secretary of several decades.
An old roommate's grandmother.
My wife had a mom of one of her high school friends die.
A nephew of someone we know from working faire.
My wife also had a friend's cousin die.All pre-vax. All died of COVID and directly from COVID.
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A grade school classmate -- 58 years old. Seems like he was in good health before he got Covid, passed away in about 3 weeks Dec 2020, intubated and never got off it. Perhaps the protocols today would have saved him? But he was someone I hadn't been in touch with since 5th grade, and we only reconnected through FB about 5 years ago. So that's pretty remote.
I can't think of anyone else.
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My husband's uncle.
He was in his 70's, had some developmental issues from complications at birth, and always needed a caregiver. His elderly sister in charge of his care decided not to vaccinate him because he was always afraid of needles. She thought if everyone else around him was vaccinated that would be enough.
It wasn't. They found him one morning last November struggling to breathe. CXR revealed white lung fields and he was Covid positive. He died a few days later.
My husband and I think he caught it from his elderly sister,who had a cold at the time, but never took a Covid test because she thought she was protected from the vaccine. We would never tell her that though.
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My mother was in hospital after a COVID infection and she came close to dying, but in retrospect it's not clear whether the symptoms were due to COVID, her terminal cancer, or her dialysis (she died a few weeks later).
Apart from that I know nobody who was severely ill, let alone died.
