a texas mother is sharing her daughter s heart wrenching final message before dying of covid. mom, i wish i got vaccinated. 32-year-old page ruiz was pregnant before she tested positive. she had an emergency c-section and looked as if she was recovering, but there were complications and she passed away last week before being able to hold her newborn baby celeste. with me now is page s mother robin. robin, we re so sorry for your loss and i want to talk to you about your daughter page. first, let me ask your granddaughters joanna and newborn celeste, how are they doing this morning? they re doing well. they re healthy and they re doing well. well, that s a blessing. and i m so pleased to hear that. i know how hard this has to be on you and them. look, your daughter page, she
the baby that she and she started to get worse that she said that she wished she had gotten the vaccine. she texted that to me. i didn t find out till after she passed she was texting that same message to her sister and to her friends. so hard to and she wanted people to get vaccinated. no doubt she d want you to be telling people right now to go out and get vaccinated and share her story. yes. so, her daughter celeste was delivered, and celeste is doing fine. yes. page was able to see celeste, but never able to hold her. explain that. as soon as celeste was
delivered, when my daughter came to, they said they couldn t they had to keep each other separated because of the covid. celeste was discharged from the hospital a couple days later and we figured out a way to do video chat so that page could see the baby. and that s how we let page figured out a way for her to mother her daughter. well, i m sure she would have loved to have been able to hold her. but even being able to see her, i m sure in and of itself was a blessing. robin, i have to let you go, but what is the message you want the american people to hear this morning? mask up. get vaccinated so this doesn t happen to your family.