Anti-vaxx mother and daughter contracted Covid-19 and died 2 weeks apart on the same hospital ward | BISouthAfrica
:"This has just shattered my world. I've lost my daughter, my best friend." He said Forde, who had four children, and Maddern were"very, very close"."They worked together, they lived together, and they died together," he said.
"I never, never thought in my life I would bury my daughter," McAllister told the BBC, adding that he did not believe she had any underlying health conditions and was healthy until she contracted Covid. "These people who are not taking the Covid-19 injection - they're not thinking of the other people that they leave behind," he said, explaining he didn't know why they refused the vaccine. Alan Chambers, an Ulster Unionist Party MLA, who knows the bereaved family, told the:"It's such shocking news, Sammie-Jo had four kids. Sammie-Jo was such a good mum to them."
As care workers, the mother and daughter would have been eligible for the vaccine from January 2020 onwards.CDC data shows that those who remain unvaccinated are 11 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than those who are vaccinatedSo far in the UK, over 80% of the eligible population have received both doses of their Covid-19 jabs,
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