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How obituary for vaccinated COVID victim led to worldwide attention and insults

Dean Olsen
State Journal-Register
“I want her death to mean something. I just didn’t want her death to be in vain,” said Amanda Ayers, center, about the obituary she wrote for her mother, Candace Ayers, who passed away from COVID-19, led to worldwide media attention. [Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Some expressed sympathy to her family after her death. Some sent profanity-laced messages on social media that she deserved to die. Some said her relatives were terrible people. 

In the two weeks since Candace Ayers’ family used her obituary to vent frustration about their fully vaccinated mother’s death from COVID-19, millions of people around the world have learned of the Springfield woman’s plight.