Tuesday, May 14

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Sandra Jacobs, Saleswoman
Sad But True, United States

Sandra Jacobs, Saleswoman

Sandra Jacobs, Saleswoman The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine brought about the April 21 death of Tatum Strieter-Byron's mother, 60-year-old Sandra Jacobs of Saline, a grandmother, a friend, an employee. Rationalizing or logically explaining this as rare doesn’t help Strieter-Byron, who still finds herself picking up the phone, without even thinking, to contact the first person she always called or texted with important news: her mother. “She was a real person. She is not a piece of just like fictitious political propaganda, where they’re saying it doesn’t exist. It’s not true. It does exist. She was a real person with a real life.” Jacobs died 13 days following the time she received the single-shot at a CVS pharmacy on April 8, just five days prior to the federal healt...
Emily Robinson, Pregnant Woman
Sad But True, United States

Emily Robinson, Pregnant Woman

Emily Robinson, 22-Year-Old Pregnant Woman ICU nurse Ashlee Schwartz arrives at work at Mercy Hospital in Arkansas and immediately checks their COVID-19 stats. She says the cases had surged in the summer – and most of the patients were unvaccinated. One August day, a patient stood out to Schwartz – Emily Robison, who was just 22 years old. The CDC says battling COVID-19 while pregnant can lead to severe complications. They request all people over the age of 12 to get vaccinated – including pregnant women.  Robison's husband, Eric Robison, had mentioned to the reporters that neither of them were vaccinated when his wife was admitted to the hospital. Being aware of Robison's condition, Schwartz was concerned for her and her baby, who would be named Carmen. "I knew that, more th...