The family of a woman from Springfield, Illinois, who died after contracting COVID-19 in a breakthrough case blamed unvaccinated people in her obituary.
“She was preceded in death by more than 4,531,799 others infected with COVID-19,” the family of now-diseased 66-year-old Candace Kay Ayers wrote. “She was vaccinated but was infected by others who chose not to be. The cost was her life.”
Ayers was vaccinated earlier this year but contracted COVID-19 in July, according to her family. She died on Sept. 3 at St. John’s Hospital in Springfield.
Ayers’s 36-year-old son, Marc, said those who politicized the vaccine are to blame.
“This whole thing is so preventable,” he said, according to the State Journal-Register. “People have politicized this and made it about politics. These are the people who have perpetuated the cycle of pain for our family and so many others.”
“Just wear a mask and get a shot,” he added. “Just buckle up for a little bit.”
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Marc said he suspects his mother may have been infected on a driving trip to Mississippi in mid-July, but he also speculated she could have been infected in Springfield.
Cases of COVID-19, fueled by the more contagious delta variant, have been spiking in Illinois and nationwide, reaching 1,500 new cases per day at the beginning of September.
