An unvaccinated California couple has died of COVID-19 complications weeks apart, leaving five young children to be raised by their grandmother. Her baby includes a newborn, whom Davy Macias, 37, gave birth by cesarean section while he was intubated. He died Aug. 26 before meeting his new daughter, CNN reported.
Davy’s husband, Daniel Macias, a 38-year-old middle-aged math teacher, was in treatment at the same hospital as his wife when she gave birth. He was able to see photos the nurses showed him of his new baby girl before he too died of COVID-19 on September 9th.
Recently retired daycare teacher Terry Macias, who now cares for his son’s children (three girls and two boys, aged from newborn to eight), has yet to name the baby. The family refers to her simply as a Girl for now.
Terry believes his son and daughter-in-law probably contracted the coronavirus while recently traveling to an indoor water park, a family outing before school started, he told CNN. The couple had been extremely cautious with COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic, as their groceries were delivered and surfaces were diligently cleaned, he noted. (The couple had sold their home before the pandemic began and they had lived with Terry).
They were not against the vaccine, he added, that they just wanted to learn more about its safety before getting it.
“It wasn’t that they didn’t want to get vaccinated, they planned it,” he said.
The sudden loss of Davy and Daniel has shaken the family and their children, which Terry believes they have not yet fully accepted the death of their parents.
“[Sometimes] our dreams don’t come true, ”she was forced to tell her three-year-old granddaughter recently after dreaming that her father had returned home from the hospital.
