Zyrin Foots, 10-Year-Old

16Oct

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Zyrin Foots, 10-Year-Old

Zyrin Foots, 10-years-old A 10-year-old boy died on Wednesday following a two-week battle with COVID-19 and complications from the virus. Zyrin Foots, a 10-year-old boy from Texas, developed Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) after contracting COVID-19. A rare condition, MIS-C causes inflammation in children's organs, including the heart, and the inability of his heart to pump blood caused him to develop gangrene in his legs. Gangrene makes body tissue die and can be life-threatening if left untreated, and the treatment can result in the loss of a body part as well. Ashley Engmann, Foots' aunt, told KTRK-TV that doctors gave her sister, Foots' mother, a choice. The choice was to amputate his arms and legs, which would give him a 25 percent chance of survival. Without the a...

30Aug

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Kenny Malone, Drummer

Drummer Kenny Malone, a prolific session player who played on hits for Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard and many others, has died. He was 83. Malone's friend and former bandmate Dave Pomeroy said he died Thursday after being diagnosed with COVID-19. The American drummer and percussionist from Denver, Colorado was known for inventing his own style of hand drumming. Since the 1970s, Malone was a prominent session musician in folk, country, and many other acoustic-based genres. His friend and former bandmate Dave Pomeroy said he died Thursday after being diagnosed with COVID-19, according to Billboard.com. Malone is credited on hundreds of records made in Nashville, including albums like Parton's 'Jolene', and Jennings' 'Dreaming My Dreams'. Among the other artists Malone played wi...

30Aug

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Marcus Birks, Musician

A Staffordshire musician who fell ill with Covid after rejecting the vaccine has now died, days after making a plea for others to not repeat his mistake. Marcus Birks, 40, from Leek in Staffordshire, died on Friday morning, his family confirmed. Birks, who was a musician in the group Cappella alongside his wife Lis Birks, had previously said that he had changed his mind about the Covid vaccine and was going to tell his family to get the jab after falling ill. Speaking to the BBC earlier in August from the intensive care unit at Royal Stoke University Hospital, he said: “If you haven’t been ill, you don’t think you’re going to get ill, so you listen to the [anti-vaccine] stuff. When you feel like you can’t get enough breath, it’s the scariest feeling in the world.” He had not h...

27Aug

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Eric Wagner, Singer

The American singer Eric Wagner, who was frontman with the doom metal bands The Skull and Trouble and a guest vocalist on Dave Grohl's Probot side project, has died. He was 62 and had been admitted to hospital in the US last week with Covid-19-related pneumonia. His passing was confirmed by his family and The Skull bandmates on social media. Wagner formed Illinois band Trouble in 1979 and they went on to release the seminal albums Psalm 9 (1984), The Skull (1985) and Trouble (1990). Having left the band in the late 1990s, he rejoined in 2000. Wagner left Trouble again in 2008 and went on to form The Skull. Their most recent album, The Endless Road Turns Dark, was released in 2018. When the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl enlisted some of his favourite singers to perform on his 200...

25Aug

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Corporal Kevin Mooney, Police Officer

A police officer identified as Corporal Kevin Mooney with the Moraga Police Department has died of COVID-19 and related complications. Mooney was 58 years old. The news release did not state if he had been vaccinated or not. The type of complications he had were also not disclosed. Mooney joined the Moraga Police in 2013 and rose through the ranks to serve as the small department's detective, a position the department said in a release Sunday night he “excelled” in. The department also said Mooney earned a reputation as a fierce advocate for victims and relentless in his pursuit of criminals. Mooney served as a rangemaster, a field training officer, and as president of the Moraga Police Officers Association. He also founded the department's holiday toy drive, collecti...

24Aug

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Phil Valentine, Radio Host

A conservative talk radio host from Tennessee who had been a vaccine skeptic until he was hospitalised from COVID-19 has died. He was 61, reported news agency PTI. Nashville radio station SuperTalk 99.7 WTN confirmed Phil Valentine’s death in a tweet August 21. Valentine had been a skeptic of coronavirus vaccines. But after he tested positive for COVID-19, and prior to his hospitalisation, he told his listeners to consider, “If I get this COVID thing, do I have a chance of dying from it?” If so, he advised them to get vaccinated. He said he chose not to get vaccinated because he thought he probably wouldn’t die. After Valentine was moved into a critical care unit, Mark Valentine said his brother regretted that “he wasn’t a more vocal advocate of the vaccination.” “I know if he we...

24Aug

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John Peacock, Football Coach

Western Carolina University offensive line coach John Peacock died last Wednesday at the age of 32, the school announced on Twitter. In a Facebook post his fiancée Erika Alexander said that he died from COVID-19 complications just four days after he was diagnosed. On the school’s athletics website, Peacock’s bio said the two were planning to wed in February 2022. According to a statement issued by the school, Peacock began working at Western Carolina this past spring and was known by his colleagues and student-athletes as a “selfless, hard worker who was always upbeat and constantly humming or singing.” The school will host a moment of silence in his honor during the first football game of the season at E.J. Whitmire Stadium on September 4, reads the statement.

22Aug

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Brent Yonts, Lawmaker

Former Kentucky lawmaker Brent Yonts, who sponsored mine-safety legislation and led a key House panel during his long legislative career, died Friday after battling a COVID-19 infection. He was 72. Yonts, a Democrat from Muhlenberg County, was first elected to the Kentucky House in 1996 and represented his western Kentucky district until his defeat during a statewide Republican wave in 2016. The GOP took control of the House in that election, cementing legislative majorities in both chambers. Yonts was vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to former colleagues. He still contracted the virus, was hospitalized for weeks and eventually was placed on a ventilator. In a social media post days before his death, his daughter, Ellen Yonts Suetholz, wrote about her father's battle...

19Aug

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Angelle Mosley, Entrepreneur

A 33-year-old woman has died in New Orleans despite being vaccinated against COVID-19, a “breakthrough” case that her family hopes will serve as a reminder to Americans to continue to wear masks. Angelle Mosley told her mother and sister in July that she had tested positive for the delta variant of coronavirus, but her mom told CBS News her health quickly deteriorated because she was obese. Her mother, Tara Mosley, was asked if doctors specifically told her that her daughter’s weight was a factor in her severe illness. “He did,” she said in response. “He did. He says that she’s a large person. Her heart could not pump like it should have been pumping.” Obesity is one of the comorbidities that can put a person at risk for severe symptoms of COVID-19. Others include kidney and hear...

19Aug

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Mkayla Robinson, Student

Mkayla Robinson, an active eighth-grader at Raleigh High School in Mississippi succumbed to COVID-19 just hours after receiving a positive test result. According to the Mississippi Free Press,Mkayla Robinson, 13, had attended school in Smith County, Mississippi, for most of last week before quickly succumbing to complications from the virus on Aug. 14 It was not clear on Sunday whether Mkayla, a junior high band member, had received the vaccine. School reopened August 6 and students were not required to wear face coverings but had the option to bring them in. However, within the first few days of school, 76 students and 11 educators tested positive in the district, forcing an additional 411 students and 11 educators to quarantine, the paper reported. The school decided to r...