It is never “breaking news,” indeed, it seems like it’s always the same news and it’s always tragic news. Vaccines work, we know – because people that do not get vaccines all too often die.

Perhaps that is why just yesterday (Friday), the FDA approved boosters for all adults, vaccines have proven that effective. A family in New York can attest to the “news” all too well.

According to the “Times Union” in Albany, New York, an entire family of four came down with COVID, the two that had been vaccinated began to improve within days, the two that had not been vaccinated did not improve:

All was well until the day they all contracted COVID-19. Julie Martin said she has no idea who was infected first, but after three days, she and Ben were starting to feel better. But Rick and Jake were getting worse.

“It’s a cautionary tale that I don’t want to accentuate,” she said. “My husband and son were vaccine-hesitant. … They didn’t have any physical health problems and they were not at particular risk.”

We are all at particular risk to this virus. Some can get it and not really know they have it (though there are doubts about the delta variant as to whether you would ever not know), some will die, as happened in this case:

Rick Martin, 57, died on Oct. 27; Jake Martin, 27, died on Nov. 2. In adjoining rooms at the hospital, they were two more victims of the 20-month-long pandemic, joining the more than 200 people who have died of COVID-19 in Saratoga County. Martin said she and her two surviving children, Ben and Lydia, are crushed.

“We are very, very close,” Martin said. “I got my family carrying me through this but, you know, we try to stay busy during the day and the night times are hard. We are devastated as a family. We are all really feeling it. One day at a time.

We keep publishing these, every single one is a tragedy, and it’s hard not to think of every single one as preventable. “

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