This might be the kind of youth case Dr. Vanden Bossche was talking about. Nobody in the family was vaccinated, but only this active 20 yr old died. I understood the theory to be that with a virus circulating as widely for this length of time, active young people may have recently recovered from a very mild or asymptomatic infection a short time before the second infection. Their immune systems can't handle it.
It might have been a case of genetics, but the father's illness was mild, the sister is not reported to have been ill at all. The mother was quite ill but survived.
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this article it is reported that Tyler had allergies that caused his doctor to not recommend vaccination, so it is possible that the allergies played a part, but the rapid illness and death still seem hard to explain to me.
https://www.wafb.com/2021/10/08/family-uses-sons-death-covid-urge-vaccination-action/
By
Melissa Brunner and
Gray News staff
Published: Oct. 7, 2021 at 9:00 PM CDT
TOPEKA, Kan. (
WIBW) - Tyler Blaylock was a college baseball player and video game enthusiast who loved his family.
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Tyler also had a special bond with his younger sister Sydeny, who’s 16.
“He would do anything for me,” she said.
Tyler died from COVID on Sept. 16.
“It went so fast, it was like a tornado,” Kayla Blaylock said.
The fight started more than a month earlier, when Kayla and Johnny Blaylock both tested positive for COVID.
“When you leave the doctor, you don’t get medicine when you test positive for COVID - and I get it - there is no medicine, I understand that,” Kayla Blaylock said.
Johnny Blaylock’s symptoms remained mild, but Kayla developed severe breathing trouble, and was admitted to the hospital.
Tyler tested positive on Aug. 15. Five days later, Johnny called Kayla to tell her he was rushing home - Tyler was in trouble.
“I immediately hang up and I call Tyler and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh. What’s going on?’ and he says, ‘
Mom, I’m laying on the bathroom floor and I cannot catch my breath,’” Kayla Blaylock said.
For the next 30 days, Tyler’s condition would go up and down. He spent stretches in isolation, spiking his anxiety.
“They arranged a FaceTime, and that was the hardest thing a mother will have to go through is to see how scared your child is,” Kayla Blaylock said.
After repeated requests, the Blaylocks were allowed at Tyler’s bedside. By that time, Tyler’s organs were shutting down.
“Three days in a row, our doctor came in and said, ‘I don’t know. I don’t know what to do,’” Johnny Blaylock recalled.
“We know that they tried everything they thought they knew to do,” Kayla Blaylock said.
The family would like to see researchers put more attention on early treatment, and for regulators to allow health care providers more flexibility to try different interventions, for wider patient populations...