'Had my daughter been vaccinated, I think she would still be here with us.'
Erica Thompson, a mother of three in St. Louis County, Missouri, died of COVID-19 on July 4 -- a death her mother said could have been prevented."Had my daughter been vaccinated, I think she would still be here with us," Jones said.An undated photo of Erica Thompson, a mother of three in St. Louis County, Mo. She died from COVID-19 on July 4, 2021, at the age of 37.
Thompson, who had asthma, went to the hospital on May 16 with chest pains and tested positive for COVID-19 days later, her mother said."She cried and cried and said, 'I want to live,'" Jones recalled.Thompson was transferred to another hospital on June 1 and put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation , a specialized form of life support -- but her lungs were not healing, Jones said.
She went on:"Day after day after day I would go to the hospital and my daughter was really slipping away."As Thompson's condition worsened, family members, including her oldest son, accompanied Jones to the hospital to say goodbye. "I just sit and cry thinking about my daughter and how much pain she was in," Jones said."Preparing for her funeral has been so taxing on me."Jones said her mission now is to promote vaccinations because she said her daughter"adamantly did not believe" in the COVID-19 vaccine.
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