“Make sure my kids get vaccinated.”

By the time Rodriguez, 42, changed her mind and asked for the shot, it was too late, her doctor said. A ventilator awaited her, her cousin Dottie Jones told The Washington Post.

Lydia Rodriguez died two weeks after her husband also succumbed to the virus, leaving their young children orphaned.

… He requested a coronavirus vaccine shortly before being put on a ventilator, Jones said, but it was also too late for him. He died Aug. 2.

Another family needlessly destroyed. This doesn’t have to keep happening. How many more of these stories are we…