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Heartbroken mom pushes for vaccines after unvaccinated daughter dies of COVID-19 - Yahoo! Voices

Heartbroken mom pushes for vaccines after unvaccinated daughter dies of COVID-19 - Yahoo! Voices

Heartbroken mom pushes for vaccines after unvaccinated daughter dies of COVID-19 - Yahoo! Voices
Jul 27, 2021 2 mins, 51 secs

Louis County, Missouri, died of COVID-19 on July 4 -- a death her mother said could have been prevented.

Thompson, 37, was unvaccinated, said her mother, Kimberle Jones.

"Had my daughter been vaccinated, I think she would still be here with us," Jones said.

Jones, speaking to ABC News as she prepared for her daughter's funeral, said she hopes their story will convince others, especially Black Americans, to get vaccinated.

Thompson, who had asthma, went to the hospital on May 16 with chest pains and tested positive for COVID-19 days later, her mother said.

MORE: Statistics show the stark risks of not getting vaccinated against COVID-19.

Thompson was transferred to another hospital on June 1 and put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a specialized form of life support -- but her lungs were not healing, Jones said.

She went on: "Day after day after day I would go to the hospital and my daughter was really slipping away.".

As Thompson's condition worsened, family members, including her oldest son, accompanied Jones to the hospital to say goodbye.

She had spent 50 days in the hospital -- which Jones called the "most grueling, excruciating 50 days of my life.".

"I just sit and cry thinking about my daughter and how much pain she was in," Jones said.

Jones said her mission now is to promote vaccinations because she said her daughter "adamantly did not believe" in the COVID-19 vaccine.

Heartbroken mom pushes for vaccines after unvaccinated daughter dies of COVID-19 originally appeared on abcnews.go.com.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday cited new science on the transmissibility of the delta variant in revising its mask guidance to now recommend that everyone in areas with substantial or high levels of transmission -- vaccinated or not -- wear a mask in public, indoor settings6

The new science, gathered from several states and other countries, shows that "in rare occasions, some vaccinated people infected with a delta variant after vaccination may be contagious and spread the virus to others," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters during a briefing on Tuesday afternoon.

President Joe Biden said Tuesday afternoon that a mandate to require all federal employees to be vaccinated is now "under consideration." This comes one day after the Department of Veterans Affairs moved to require all of its health workers get a COVID-19 vaccine and within hours of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited new science on the transmissibility of the delta variant and reversed its mask guidance6

"It's under consideration right now," Biden said of a vaccine mandate for federal workers Tuesday afternoon.

Organizers of Chicago's Lollapalooza festival have a strict message for music lovers who want to attend all four days of the event: Get vaccinated, or get tested for COVID-19 more than once during the weekend.

Simone Biles' shocking withdrawal from the team competition at the Tokyo Olympics Tuesday put a spotlight on mental health and the extreme stress elite athletes like Biles are under.

At least one person was killed and more than a dozen others were injured in an explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies in western Germany on Tuesday morning, officials said

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