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Healthy college professor
dies within 48 hours of shot
MAR 8 - gets shot
> MAR 10-dead
beccaingle
Blowing Rock, North Carolina
WRAT.jJW3
Posted March 25, 2021 6:20 p.m. EDT
As a college professor who worked in person with her students at Appalachian
State University and spent lots of time caring for her two grandchildren, 63-yearold
Virginia Ellington was counting the days until she could be vaccinated against
COVID-19.
beccaingle The best mom and Grammy in the world
slipped away from our life unexpectedly yesterday
and the fact I didn't get to see her, talk to her, tell her
I loved her one last time is eating me alive. She got
the vaccine on Monday because she is a believer in
science. Felt bad shortly after, and went into cardiac
arrest yesterday morning. My dad was unable to
revive her. We have an autopsy underway. The thing
she thought was saving her might have killed her. If
you know my mom, she is a professor @appstate the
smartest women I know, she proofreads all my travel
articles, she babysits my kids on demand when we
travel, she took every precaution during covid and
she loved her family so much. I love you so much
mom. If I can just be half the mom you were I'll know
I'm fine. Thanks for all the messages, prayers and
"I have texts from her saying how excited she was to get it," her daughter. Ingle,
said.
Ingle said her mother and father got the Johnson &Johnson vaccine on the
morning of Monday, March 8, at the Watauga Health Center in Boone.
Ellington started feeling very tired and even asked her husband about possible
vaccine side effects, Ingle told WRAL News.
Ellington went to work the next day but was still feeling unwell, according to her
family. On Wednesday, March 10, she stayed in bed. A little while later, her
husband returned to the bedroom to find her unresponsive.
"He tried giving her CPR, and he called 911, and they said she was gone when they
got there," Ingle said.
Ingle said the local doctor, who did a preliminary examination, told the family that
her mother died of a stroke. The local medical examiner, a paramedic and a
teacher who signed the death certificate, wrote that the vaccine was one of the
"significant conditions contributing to her death."