Sylvia and Alvaro Fernandez were high school sweethearts. When
they met, Sylvia was just fifteen. Last year they celebrated their twenty-fifth
anniversary. NBC Los Angeles reports they both passed away December 19 –
victims of COVID-19 and of misinformation. The CDC reports more than 70% of
Americans have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, but that blacks and
Hispanics are less likely to have been vaccinated. Alvaro had heard his
diabetes put him at higher risk for complications, but felt he couldn’t believe
everything he heard on the news. Instead of being vaccinated, he said he wanted
to “wait and do more research.” “This is an eye-opener for everybody,” said Alvaro’s
sister. “Whoever is not vaccinated definitely should have their
vaccinations." Alvaro and Sylvia (also unvaccinated) died within hours of
one another, days after testing positive. They leave behind four children; the
oldest are seventeen-year-old twins. Alvaro was just forty-four years old, and
Sylvia was forty-two.
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