The family of Virginia nurse Syvie Robertson said she died from complications related to COVID-19 early New Year's Day.
Robertson’s family is opening up about their unexpected loss in hopes that people not taking the pandemic seriously will change course.
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She was supposed to show me how to make prime rib for Christmas this year,” Meshayla Jones, Syvie Robertson's daughter, said.
But instead of spending the holidays with her family, Robertson's daughter said her mother was on a ventilator at a Richmond hospital.
“We were supposed to do it together, and we didn't get that chance,” Jones lamented. “It wasn't because she was being careless; it was because she was helping others get better."
The Hopewell nurse died from complications related to COVID-19 one hour into the new year, according to her family.
Robertson's death came one day after Virginia topped the grim mark of 5,000 COVID-related deaths and as local health officials warn a wave of new cases is expected within the next two weeks.
"We will continue to see the impacts of them all the way into January, with increased illness from COVID, increased hospitalizations,” Richmond-Henrico Health District Deputy Director Dr. Melissa Viray said. “And really, it worries me from the standpoint of our healthcare."
Robertson's family said that like so many healthcare workers she pressed on with her work despite the dangers.
"She had a strong conviction of mask up,” Clanton said. “She masked up and went to work. And for this, she paid with her life."
