Story at a glance:
- A fully vaccinated Michigan couple died of COVID-19.
- They had pre-existing health conditions and contracted COVID-19 during a camping trip.
- No vaccines provide 100 percent protection against the virus.
A fully vaccinated Michigan couple died from COVID-19 one minute apart and holding hands.
Cal Dunham, 59, and his wife Linda Durham, 66, had preexisting health conditions and contracted COVID-19 during a camping trip, Fox 17 reported.
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Described by their surviving daughter Sarah Dunham, the Grand Rapids couple were churchgoing people and outdoors enthusiasts who put family first.
“The love that they found together after a previous marriage is fantastic,” Sarah Dunham told Fox 17. “They were the people that you just looked at and you were like, ‘I want to be old like that, I want that love when I’m that age.’”
“[My dad] called me before our family camping trip and said he wasn’t feeling good but he thinks it’s just like sinus, and [Linda] caught it and she’s like, ‘He gave me his cold,’” Sarah explained.
“The third day they woke me up and said, ‘We’ve got to go because we don’t feel well.’ So I packed them all up and they left,” she said.
A few days later, the couple was hospitalized and placed on ventilators.
On Monday, they were taken off life support and were pronounced dead, The New York Post reported. Cal Dunham died at 11:07 a.m., and Linda Dunham died less than a minute later.
Both were noticeably holding hands.
“She always joked and said, ‘Well, you’re going to go before I am, I’ll be right there behind you, I promise.’ And she really was, like she really was right there behind him,” Sarah Dunham told Fox 17.
No vaccines provide 100 percent protection against a virus; the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines show about a 95 percent efficacy rate against the coronavirus, and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine shows an overall efficacy rate of 77 percent.
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