WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:28.0840000" NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.455 Jennifer events they're going to NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:01.455 --> 00:00:03.240 take place all across our country NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:04.896 this weekend to honor those who NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:04.896 --> 00:00:06.959 lost loved ones or still fighting NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:06.959 --> 00:00:08.535 COVID-19 themselves Saturday morning. NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:08.540 --> 00:00:10.100 Which is right now, right? NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:10.100 --> 00:00:11.972 People will gather at Saint Luke's NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:11.972 --> 00:00:13.220 Episcopal Church in Atlanta, NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:13.220 --> 00:00:14.780 and one of the speakers, NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:14.780 --> 00:00:17.276 a woman mourning the loss of her father. NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:19.152 She tells Hope for the trauma NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:19.152 --> 00:00:20.400 of losing her dad. NOTE Confidence: 0.989563100000001 00:00:20.400 --> 00:00:21.648 Is her new normal. NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:23.200 --> 00:00:24.744 A childlike innocence arrest NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:24.744 --> 00:00:26.288 in Tonya Washington home. NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:26.290 --> 00:00:28.220 We're going to make posters, NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:28.220 --> 00:00:30.866 but these arts and crafts are not NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:30.866 --> 00:00:33.617 just for play to honor my father, NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:33.620 --> 00:00:35.550 her father, Doctor Kerry Washington, NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:35.550 --> 00:00:37.098 a fully vaccinated psychologist NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:37.100 --> 00:00:39.795 like he called he was like so NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:39.795 --> 00:00:40.960 excited, celebrating, celebrating NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:42.500 until he tested positive NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:42.500 --> 00:00:44.425 for COVID five days in. NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:44.430 --> 00:00:47.518 He was on 100% oxygen. Tony discovered one NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:49.704 of his coworkers was unvaccinated and NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:49.704 --> 00:00:52.538 I was like what and COVID positive. NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:52.540 --> 00:00:54.408 Did anyone notify my dad? NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:54.408 --> 00:00:56.921 No, no amount of four warning could NOTE Confidence: 0.9888868 00:00:56.921 --> 00:00:59.110 prepare Tonya for what was ahead. NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:00:59.110 --> 00:01:02.044 I was in head to Toe PPE and that's NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:02.044 --> 00:01:04.470 how I said goodbye to my dad NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:04.470 --> 00:01:06.276 and I held his hand when NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:06.276 --> 00:01:08.150 he took his last breaths. NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:08.150 --> 00:01:10.159 Now his last moments he and NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:10.160 --> 00:01:11.840 my daughter bounded in hardback. NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:11.840 --> 00:01:14.518 He was said, proud Papa, he loved her NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:16.190 so much and his daughters NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:16.190 --> 00:01:17.526 heart colored with sadness. NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:17.530 --> 00:01:20.178 But there's a lot of voice mails that NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:20.178 --> 00:01:23.249 I kept from him and I still hear the NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:23.249 --> 00:01:24.964 encouragement and my dad's voice. NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:24.970 --> 00:01:27.040 A child, even through those voicemails, NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:28.420 no matter what age, NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:28.420 --> 00:01:30.145 struggles to lose a parent, NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:30.150 --> 00:01:32.222 and it's a feeling Tanya wants to NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:32.222 --> 00:01:33.940 keep others from experiencing, NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:33.940 --> 00:01:35.740 so she'll tell their story at NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:35.740 --> 00:01:37.424 an upcoming event for COVID NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:37.424 --> 00:01:39.116 survivors honoring her father. NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:40.500 We just missing terribly NOTE Confidence: 0.95104223 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:42.570 while trying to see if we NOTE Confidence: 0.9863028 00:01:42.570 --> 00:01:44.640 really do. Someone else is OK. NOTE Confidence: 0.9863028 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:46.360 Hope forward joins us now. NOTE Confidence: 0.9863028 00:01:46.360 --> 00:01:48.558 Hope given her father passing away from NOTE Confidence: 0.9863028 00:01:48.558 --> 00:01:50.499 COVID-19 after being Vasant vaccinated, NOTE Confidence: 0.9863028 00:01:50.500 --> 00:01:53.260 did she say where she stands on vaccines? NOTE Confidence: 0.9824098 00:01:55.530 --> 00:01:57.672 Well, Tanya says she knows that her NOTE Confidence: 0.9824098 00:01:57.672 --> 00:02:00.009 father's case is rare and she still NOTE Confidence: 0.9824098 00:02:00.009 --> 00:02:01.709 believes in vaccination and mast, NOTE Confidence: 0.9824098 00:02:01.710 --> 00:02:04.132 and she hopes that Saturday mornings event NOTE Confidence: 0.9824098 00:02:04.132 --> 00:02:06.259 will encourage others to get the vaccine. NOTE Confidence: 0.9824098 00:02:06.260 --> 00:02:08.465 She'll be joined by people suffering from NOTE Confidence: 0.9824098 00:02:08.465 --> 00:02:10.984 long COVID as well as lawmakers who say NOTE Confidence: 0.9824098 00:02:10.984 --> 00:02:13.410 they want a better pandemic response. OK, NOTE Confidence: 0.982409799999999 00:02:13.410 --> 00:02:15.391 hope for it for us tonight and NOTE Confidence: 0.982409799999999 00:02:15.391 --> 00:02:17.521 you can find the details on the NOTE Confidence: 0.982409799999999 00:02:17.521 --> 00:02:20.155 event where you can sign up on our NOTE Confidence: 0.982409799999999 00:02:20.155 --> 00:02:21.655 website elevenalive.com and you NOTE Confidence: 0.982409799999999 00:02:21.655 --> 00:02:23.774 can also text your questions on NOTE Confidence: 0.982409799999999 00:02:23.774 --> 00:02:25.923 the virus or vaccine to the number NOTE Confidence: 0.982409799999999 00:02:25.923 --> 00:02:28.084 on your screen for all 485-7600.