Central Texas man loses father, sister to COVID-19 | KVUE

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tpp1k6QDzA"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]all new at six tonight a central texas man prepares to bury his father and sister after copen 19 took their lives santos mata says his sister was unvaccinated and he also says right before she died she said she wished she had gotten the covet 19 vaccine as kvue's jenny lee reports monta has now turned his sister's wish into a message on the day of his father and sister's rosary service it's hit it's hit really hard santos mata has to make sure his mother is okay my mom was also infected as well i didn't think she was going to pull through she's recovering from covert 19 and broken-hearted from her husband and daughter's deaths 65-year-old arturo mata died from the virus on august 6th mata said while his father was vaccinated he had health issues he started with the sneezing the runny nose the migraine and then eventually the cause mata said his father wasn't hospitalized and died at home unlike his sister i think the shortness of breath along with the congestion and coughing is what sent her to the hospital mata said his sister was in the icu for about three weeks the last two medically unconscious before doctors innovated her mata said she had a wish she was saying that she wish she would have got vaccinated because she saw all the other people that were in the in the er with her and 100 of the people at the time that were in the er were unvaccinated people how did that make you feel it made me feel like i needed to go out and get vaccinated abby passed away soon after speaking those words a little more than a week ago it wasn't long after that mata received his first dose of the pfizer vaccine at first i was really against getting the vaccination i didn't want to get vaccinated i was one of the people that said you know i don't want to get injected with anything that the government has but then i started researching more and hearing more about these practitioners that suggest getting vaccinated because it helps protect against this virus mata's father started a s recycling more than 30 years ago in gonzales mata now wants part of his family's legacy to also include a message of awareness get vaccinated it could save a life in gonzales i'm jenny lee jenny thanks a lot now a rosary service for arturo mata and abigail mata casaurus is tonight at the jb wells expo center in gonzales the funerals are set for tomorrow<br><!-- wp:image {"id":1776,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} -->rn<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img class="wp-image-1776" src="https://en.videoencontexto.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Central_Texas_man_loses_father_sister_to_COVID19__KVUE_1tpp1k6QDzA.jpg" alt="Central Texas man loses father, sister to COVID-19 | KVUE" /></figure>rn<!-- /wp:image -->[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]