In just three weeks, six members of an unvaccinated Florida family died after contracting COVID-19.
After attending the funeral of family member Tyrone Moreland, 48, her 89-year-old grandmother, Lillie Mae Dukes Moreland, was hospitalized with the virus and died just 24 hours later, according to The Palm Beach Post.
Three more cousins died shortly after her grandmother, and the most recent loss of the family was Trentarian Moreland, 44, who died Sunday.
Surviving family member Lisa Wilson said she believes she can track at least two of the family’s deaths to a pantry where her relatives had worked, but she’s not sure where the others got the virus, she said. inform the newspaper.
Wilson had been going door-to-door for weeks in Belle Glade, Florida, encouraging people to get vaccinated. She had tried unsuccessfully to persuade her family members to get vaccinated before she died.
“I was in his ears almost every day. “You just did that,” Wilson told the Post. “I’m hitting. Should I have pressed harder? ”
More than 65 percent of Floridians are vaccinated and mortality rates and the spread of the virus have begun to decline in the state after a brutal August, according to weekly COVID-19 data from the Florida Department of Health.