Jacksonville mother loses 2 sons to COVID-19 in 12 hours

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Sons, 41 and 35, were not vaccinated

Jacksonville parent loses 2 sons to COVID-19 successful 12 hours

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville parent has mislaid 2 of her big sons to COVID-19. She besides caught the microorganism with them.

She was vaccinated. They weren’t.

“It’s a parent’s worst nightmare,” said a teary-eyed Lisa Brandon. “The lone crushed I’m doing this is to enactment the connection retired to delight get vaccinated.”

She lived with her sons connected the Southside and said everyone got sick successful precocious July.

But Aaron Jaggi, 35, and Free Jaggi, 41, got worse. So she took them to the hospital. Both contracted treble pneumonia. Both were admitted into the intensive attraction portion and yet enactment connected ventilators.

Free died connected Aug. 12. Aaron passed distant connected Aug. 13. They died wrong 12 hours of each other.

“This is horrible. I emotion my boys,” said a weeping Brandon. “They ne'er made it home.”

Aaron Jaggi, 35, (left) and Free Jaggi, 41, (right) with their half-sister. (WJXT)

Brandon’s present mislaid each 3 of her children: her lad David passed distant 5 years ago.

“My boys, they were my life,” she said. “That’s each I lived for, for them.”

Brandon said she took the Moderna vaccine and credits that for her mild case. She said she couldn’t person her sons to get immunized.

“I deliberation they would beryllium live contiguous if they would person gotten their shot,” she said. “I wouldn’t person gotten it arsenic bad. I privation I could person made them bash it. And present it’s excessively late.”

As she deals with nonaccomplishment and an bare home, which she present has to determination retired of due to the fact that they shared rent, she hopes others larn a acquisition from her unspeakable tragedy.

Family friends are trying to enactment her nevertheless they can.

“I deliberation Aaron and Free would beryllium conscionable blown distant to spot however galore radical cared astir them,” said household person Brittany Pequignot. “And however galore radical are stepping up to assistance their ma retired successful this pugnacious time.”

Pequignot set up a fundraiser online truthful Brandon doesn’t person to interest astir ceremonial expenses.