In a heart-wrenching scene for medical professionals, a fully vaccinated Michigan couple held hands as they died from COVID-19 less than a minute apart.
Cal and Linda Dunham, residents of Grand Rapids, began feeling sick during a family camping trip, Fox17 reported. Cal, 59, and his wife Linda, 66, both suffered from pre-existing health conditions.
"[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 Dunham, the couple's daughter, told Fox17.
On the third day of the trip, Sarah reported that her parents woke her up, telling her that they needed to go because they didn't feel well.
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Days after leaving the family's vacation, the couple's condition drastically worsened, with both ending up on ventilators.
At 11:07 a.m. on Monday, Cal died, followed by Linda less than a minute later. As they passed away, they held each other's 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 told Fox 17.
Sarah shared that the couple had a special kind of love once they found each other after a previous marriage.
"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,'" she said.
Now, after seeing what her family went through, Sarah finds it frustrating that people don't take the virus seriously.
"I'm angry because so many people are like, 'If I catch COVID, I catch COVID, that's what it is.' No, it's not," she said.
"It could be any person — it could be anybody. They did everything right, they did everything to protocol the way it should be done."
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