Cal and Linda Dunham did everything together, right until the very end.
The Grand Rapids, Mich., couple died of COVID-19 within a minute of each other, while holding hands.
Linda Dunham was 66 and Cal Dunham was 59, according to The Independent.
Though fully vaccinated, each had underlying health conditions that could have made them more susceptible to a breakthrough infection, their daughter, Sarah Dunham, told WXMI-TV after their deaths on Sunday.
“The love that they found together after a previous marriage is fantastic,” Sarah Dunham told the Fox affiliate. “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.’ ”
Their lives, though not their love, started unraveling in July, when both began to feel sick during a camping trip. At first they thought it was sinusitis or a cold, Sarah Dunham told WXMI. By day three they felt ill enough to cut their sojourn short.
Within days, both the Dunhams were hospitalized and intubated, WXMI reported, their undisclosed preexisting conditions exacerbating their illness. On Sunday, the doctors told the family the two would have to be taken off life support on Monday. But “they had other plans,” Sarah Dunham said.
The two were wheeled into the same room on Sunday, and moments later, Cal Dunham died at 11:07 a.m. Linda Dunham followed less than a minute later, dying at 11:08.
It went down exactly as Linda Dunham had always said it would, their daughter told WXMI.
“She always joked and said, ‘Well, you’re going to go before I am, I’ll be right there behind you, I promise,’ ” Sarah Dunham said. “And she really was, like she really was right there behind him.”
It’s cases like the Dunhams’ that are spurring the push for booster shots in people with underlying conditions that contribute to a drop in immunity even if they’re fully vaccinated. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday recommended a third Pfizer shot for people aged 50-64 years with underlying medical conditions six months after their first two, as well as anyone aged 65 and up.
Not to be cold, but the takeaways are they were both fully jabbed and they were intubated. I see this as a double homicide! How the writer tries to spin this in support of more jabs is incredulous. But even worse is that so many idiots will follow this line of thinking. This article is a manipulative propaganda piece.
Boy, they’re really ramping up the melodramatic stories in the “news”.
Just last week in Philly area there was a sad sad boo f’g hoo story about a couple who was “going to get married bit their vax hesitancy caused her to die so now she is being buried where she was supposed to be married.” Propaganda caster then ended with adding rhetoric about “uh, I just can’t get over her being buried where she should’ve been married”.
Oh, the humanity
bet they got the poison jab about a minuet apart too
oh so what a coinkydink
Amazing that MSN mentions in the article that they both got the poison jab. You’d think they would have edited that part out as it doesn’t help to promote their propaganda.
Yer right
But what it does do
It ramps up the fear
As it’s still all about control