LAPD employee who lost partner, widow of sergeant urge vaccination in LAPD video
Even after her spouse and fellow Los Angeles Police Department employee Raymond Guerrero died of COVID-19 in January, Debra Guerrero wasn’t quite sure about getting the vaccine.
“I would just encourage people to think it over if you have not received it, because we’re going through another wave of COVID, and if there’s something that you’re able to do that’s going to help you pull through and maybe not have to experience something like this — there’s something you can do to help you survive this because this is such a new illness and virus — then I would suggest trying to get the vaccine,” Guerrero said through tears.
Another account in the video was that of Tawnya White, whose husband, LAPD Sgt. Anthony White, died of COVID-19 in April at 53. “Having the tracheostomy, he was unable to speak again,” she said. “We were never able to hear his voice again.”White said her husband “fought every day and he wanted to come home, but in the end COVID was attacking his entire body, and he never recovered. He never could recover from it. His body started to shut down and it was very, very traumatic.”