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This photo provided by Christina Tidmore shows Josh Tidmore on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 at Marshall Medical Center South in Boaz, Alabama. Christina and Josh Tidmore, healthy and 30 years old, considered that they had a low risk of COVID-19 and that they had conflicts over the views that filled their social networks and social circles, they decided to wait to be vaccinated. On July 20, Josh returned home from work with a mild cough that was initially thought to be a sinus problem. On Aug. 11, she died of COVID-19 at a hospital in northern Alabama while Tidmore saw a doctor and his team frantically try to resuscitate her husband. (Christina Tidmore via AP)
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This photo provided by Christina Tidmore shows Josh Tidmore on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 at Marshall Medical Center South in Boaz, Alabama. Christina and Josh Tidmore, healthy and 30 years old, considered that they had a low risk of COVID-19 and that they had conflicts over the views that filled their social networks and social circles, they decided to wait to be vaccinated. On July 20, Josh returned home from work with a mild cough that was initially thought to be a sinus problem. On Aug. 11, she died of COVID-19 at a hospital in northern Alabama while Tidmore saw a doctor and his team frantically try to resuscitate her husband. (Christina Tidmore via AP)
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP): Healthy and at age 30, Christina and Josh Tidmore believed they had a low risk of COVID-19. With conflicting views on whether to be vaccinated against the virus, fill their social networks and social circles, they decided to wait.
On July 20, Josh returned home from work with a mild cough that was initially thought to be a sinus problem. On Aug. 11, she died of COVID-19 at a hospital in northern Alabama, while Christina Tidmore witnessed a doctor and her team frantically try to resuscitate her husband.
“She said, ‘I need a pulse. I’d hear’ no dust, ‘” Christina Tidmore said through tears. “They were trying hard.”
“No one should go through this. I was only 36 years old and I am 35 years old and we have three children. ”
He now implores young adults not to reject the risk and to consider getting vaccinated.
“Josh was completely healthy, active, he didn’t smoke.” Saturday would have turned 37 years old.
Doctors say they see an increase in cases among young adults and children as the highly contagious delta variant goes through unvaccinated populations. Medical officials say there is conflicting information about whether it makes people suffer more from serious illnesses or whether young people are more vulnerable to them, but it is clear that contagion means more young people and children get sick.
“There is no doubt that the average age of people who are admitted to the hospital is going down,” state health agent Scott Harris said Friday.
“I don’t know if it’s clear that the delta is worse in this age group or worse than any of the strains we’ve seen before. … But what you have is that it’s much, much more transmissible. Because older people “The vaccinated population in our state predominates, the youngest people are the most vulnerable. So you see them infected at much higher rates than we had before.”
In the last four weeks, people between the ages of 25 and 49 accounted for 14% of all COVID deaths in the state. And people aged 50 to 64 accounted for about 29%.
The state is also experiencing an increase in COVID cases among children, although so far deaths have been rare. This week the state set a record for pediatric hospitalizations with 50 children hospitalized with COVID-19.
In the past four weeks, 6% of COVID-19 cases in Alabama have been among children under the age of five, while 8% have been among children between the ages of five and 17, according to the Department of Public Health. ‘Alabama.
“I am very concerned that children in Alabama are suffering more illnesses and hospitalizations as a result of COVID-19. Children can contract and spread COVID-19 disease. COVID-19 can be a very serious disease in children with at least 6% of children who suffer from long-term consequences of this disease, ”said Dr. Karen Landers, a pediatrician with the Alabama Department of Public Health.
The Alabama Hospital Association said this week that 85% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients are not vaccinated.
Christina Tidmore also had COVID-19 but recovered. She said she and her husband were not vaccinators, but that they heard conflicting information, including, she said, from doctors.
“It’s just a fight around here. This side and that side, and political garbage. … You don’t know who to believe, ”he said.
A joker with a heart of gold, Josh loved to help others and make people laugh, especially children. She entered the Easter and Christmas gatherings in an inflatable dinosaur costume and ran hugging family members. I would happily shoot visitors to the beach. He did not hesitate to hurry to help an injured motorist in an accident near the church in northern Alabama that his grandparents founded.
“It could make you feel better when no one else could. He was listening. He really cared about everyone, ”Christina Tidmore said.
The family trusts her faith to get it and Christina Tidmore wants to share her husband’s story to help people, as Josh would have liked.
“If you can try to save your life, you probably should,” he said about vaccinations.
“I have a lot of feelings, a lot of grief and a lot of things,” he said. “” You don’t want to do this. You don’t do that. ”
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This story corrects the first sentence of the summary to read Alabama, not Mississippi.
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