{"id":326487,"date":"2021-08-16T19:44:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fully-vaccinated-southwest-flight-attendant-dies-of-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T19:44:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T16:44:56","slug":"fully-vaccinated-southwest-flight-attendant-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fully-vaccinated-southwest-flight-attendant-dies-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fully vaccinated Southwest flight attendant dies of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Fully vaccinated Southwest flight attendant dies of COVID-19<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>A fully vaccinated 36-year-old Southwest Airlines flight attendant from New York died after contracting COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Maurice \u201cReggie\u201d\u00a0Shepperson, who was based in Las Vegas, tested positive for the bug in early July, and succumbed to the disease Tuesday after being treated in a hospital for a month, a co-worker and friend <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/travel\/airline-news\/2021\/08\/11\/southwest-airlines-flight-attendant-covid-maurice-reggie-shepperson\/8100532002\/\">told USA Today.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>He was on a ventilator before he died, according to his mother. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely clear when he was inoculated against COVID-19. Vaccines take three weeks after the second shot to reach their full effectiveness.   <\/p>\n<p>It also wasn\u2019t clear whether the flight attendant had any pre-existing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for Southwest Airlines confirmed to USA Today that a Las Vegas-based crew member died Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Severe infections of COVID-19 among those who are vaccinated are extremely rare, even as the highly contagious Delta variant has spread across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The latest figures posted on the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/covid-19\/health-departments\/breakthrough-cases.html\">CDC\u2019s website<\/a>\u00a0showed that just 8,054 \u2014 or 0.005 percent \u2014 of the 166 million Americans who\u2019ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 had suffered serious breakthrough infections causing hospitalization or death as of Aug. 9.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Maurice-Shepperson.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Reggie Shepperson passed away on August 10th from COVID-19.\" class=\"wp-image-19144590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Maurice-Shepperson.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Maurice-Shepperson.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Maurice-Shepperson.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Reggie Shepperson passed away Aug. 10 from COVID-19.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">GoFundMe<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The vast majority of those who did become severely sick (74 percent) were age 65 or older, the data shows.<\/p>\n<p>Shepperson\u2019s mother, Dawn Shepperson, said her son\u2019s death was \u201cmind-blowing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hurt me so bad because it was just so quick,\u201d she told USA Today. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have time to really even acknowledge what is going on. This is mind-blowing,\u201d the grieving mom added. \u201cIt\u2019s not real. It\u2019s not real. It\u2019s not real.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dawn Shepperson,\u00a0who raised her son alone after his father died when he was a baby, said she was \u201cproud\u201d to be Reggie\u2019s mother. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople that I don\u2019t even know, once they find out I\u2019m Reggie\u2019s mother, said, \u2018Ma\u2019am, you did a beautiful job. This is a fine young man,\u2019\u201d she said, according to the outlet. \u201cAs a mother, I feel so blessed and proud because that\u2019s all I wanted in life was to raise my son right.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Southwest-Airlines-017.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A Southwest Airlines plane\" class=\"wp-image-19144596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Southwest-Airlines-017.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Southwest-Airlines-017.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Southwest-Airlines-017.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Reggie Shepperson was a beloved employee of Southwest, according to his colleagues. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Steve Pfost\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>day RM via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Marcia Hildreth, a fellow Southwest flight attendant, also told USA Today that Shepperson was given the nickname \u201cSkittles\u201d in 2014 because of his colorful attire during flight attendant training.    <\/p>\n<p>Travis Pittman, a fellow Las Vegas-based flight attendant for Southwest, described his co-worker as \u201cso sweet\u201d and \u201clike a teddy bear.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat New York exterior can come off hard and all that,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cBut he was just like a teddy bear, so sweet on the inside and very, very loving. Just very fun to be around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u00a0are heartbroken over the loss of our Southwest employee,\u201d Southwest spokesman Brandy King told the publication in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of\u00a0respect for the family, we do not have additional information to share.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Maurice \u201cReggie\u201d\u00a0Shepperson, who was based in Las Vegas, tested positive for the bug in early July, and succumbed to the disease Tuesday after being treated in a hospital for a month, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Southwest-Airlines.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[114327,70996,70908,1545,82862,76029],"class_list":["post-326487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-8-16-21","tag-air-travel","tag-airlines","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-vaccine","tag-flight-attendants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}