A heartbroken nurse has shared the devastating news that her anti-vax mum has died after contracting Covid aged just 57.
Amy Crosby, from Middlesbrough, said her mum Geraldine, who had no pre-existing health conditions, died at the same hospitals where she has been working on the vaccine rollout.
The 34-year-old said their relationship had been "strained" due to Geraldine's views on Covid.
She described her mum's death as "painful and preventable" in an emotional Twitter post.
Amy said she was sharing the story in the hope that it might prevent others posting "ludicrous dangerous beliefs" about the virus and vaccine.
The nurse wrote: "We have had a strained relationship over the past 18 months and some of this was due to her belief that Covid-19 wasn't real and that vaccines were dangerous.
"Today in hospital she died of complications caused by Covid, she spent the last month of her life without any family around her and her last memories were of sheer terror at having to be intubated and not knowing if she would wake up.
"As a nurse whose been working on the covid vaccine roll out at the same hospital she died at today, I can't tell you how painful this preventable loss is for our family."
Amy praised staff at James Cook University Hospital who "battled desperately" to save her.
She said she hopes the tragedy can help save the lives of others, writing: "If any good can come of this, it is that hopefully in sharing her story and our pain, even just one person with these ludicrous dangerous beliefs can rethink, reconsider sharing this warped 'evidence' and get the vaccine to prevent their families having to go through what we are now.
"I will be eternally thankful for the staff at James Cook Hospital who have battled desperately to save her.
"You are all heroes."
She finished her heartbreaking message by writing: "Good night Mam, I love you and will remember the happier times, I hope you are at peace now."
Latest data shows that 87.4 per cent of UK adults have received at least one jab, while 76 per cent - 41.3 million people - have had both.
Public health bosses have become increasingly worried that vaccine take-up is slowing among young people.
Just under 60 per cent of those aged 18 to 25 have been vaccinated, figures show.
Professor Beate Kampmann, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told The Guardian : “People are more hesitant if they feel the disease to be prevented does not concern them.
"So to put out the data specifically [on] how young people’s health is affected by the pandemic in terms of cases, admissions, serious consequences, deaths, long Covid but also the benefit to cutting down transmission chains, might go some way to showing that this virus does not stop at age and that it’s everyone’s business to limit the damage."
