Neonatal nurse practitioner Dottie Jones warned her cousin, Lydia Rodriguez, of the "brutal" death and complications that come from COVID-19. But Jones said her warnings didn't make a difference; her cousin was adamantly against vaccinations. Weeks later, Rodriguez and her husband died after testing positive for COVID-19. The couple left behind four children. "She spent her whole life against vaccines, and then before she was intubated, she asked doctors for the vaccine, but it was too late," Last month, Rodriguez, her husband and their kids attended a weeklong church camp.
Each member of the family contracted COVID-19 afterward. While the kids remained asymptomatic, conditions for Rodriguez and her husband Lawrence Rodriguez worsened. Jones said Rodriguez's last plea was that her family made sure her kids received the COVID-19 vaccine. "She said, 'I need my kids to get vaccinated.
Please make sure,'" Jones said. "It was too late to save her life, but she wanted them to be safe." Lydia Rodriguez, 42, died Monday, two weeks after her husband also died following COVID-19 related complications. Lawrence Rodriguez was 49. Although Jones said she told Lydia and Lawrence about the hundreds of COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Sugar Land, Texas, it didn't make a difference. The Texas couple practiced social distancing and wore masks in public, but they also remained fearful of vaccines.
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