In less than 2 days, his father and son were dead from COVID

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– In the space of about 36 hours, a restaurant owner in Pennsylvania lost his father and son to COVID-19. Alan Collins Sr., who was almost 72 years old and triple vaccinated, died in a Pittsburgh hospital on September 28, Alan Collins Jr. told CNN. Collins’ son, Alan David Brown Sr., died the next day. The 35-year-old father of four has not been vaccinated, his father says. The two will also be buried a day apart, reports WPXI.

While Brown also lived in the Pittsburgh area, the grandson and grandfather did not live together, and Collins, who is vaccinated, says it was a coincidence the two were infected at about the same moment. Brown was infected after his young son came home from school with the virus, WTAE reports. Collins’s father was a kidney transplant recipient, which Collins says may have made him more vulnerable to COVID despite receiving a booster dose of the vaccine after his first two doses.

As for Brown, his widow says he changed his stance on the vaccine after getting sick: “People have to put on their masks,” she says. “People need to get vaccinated. A GoFundMe campaign set up for her and the couple’s four children has raised almost $ 20,000 so far. (Read more COVID-19 stories.)