20-year-old North Carolina college student dies from COVID-19
Tyler Gilreath, a 20-year-old student from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington (UNCW), died of complications from COVID-19 on September 27, in yet another tragic exposure of the myth that young people are left unscathed by the deadly virus.
Gilreath’s mother, Tamara Demello, repeatedly encouraged her son to get vaccinated over the summer, but he insisted that he was young, healthy, and did not have any pre-existing conditions, and therefore would be fine without vaccination. Eventually, Gilreath agreed to get vaccinated once he reached UNCW, as a present for his mother’s 60th birthday.
But he never got a chance. Gilreath tested positive for COVID-19 on August 20, two days after moving into his dorm at the university, his mother told the News and Observer. For three weeks, Gilreath was “extremely sick,” running a 102-degree fever, vomiting, and experiencing other major symptoms. By September 7, Gilreath tested negative for the coronavirus, and his fever and other symptoms had mostly abated. However, he still suffered from headaches and lethargy.
After going to the doctor’s office, Gilreath discovered that he had a sinus infection. In the days before he could get a prescription for antibiotics filled, the infection had combined with a staph infection and started to move toward his brain, Demello said.
On the night of September 20, Gilreath told his mother he was feeling significant weakness on the right side of his body, as if he was losing control of it. His roommates took him to the emergency room around 10 p.m. and by 1:30 a.m. surgeons had to create an opening in his skull to drain excess fluid and reduce swelling in his brain. Demello drove down to Wilmington, and Gilreath’s father drove from Ohio. Doctors told them the sinus infection had gone to their son’s brain, and had ruptured.
Over the course of the week, Gilreath’s condition got worse, as he lost brain function. His mother said he briefly regained consciousness and looked her in the eyes while squeezing her hand, acknowledging that he knew she was there. But the swelling in his brain continued to worsen. After one more operation, at around 3 a.m. on Sept. 25, doctors informed Gilreath’s parents that he likely would not survive. A CAT scan revealed there was no blood flow to his brain and the damage was irreversible.
Doctors took Gilreath off life support Tuesday morning. According to his family, his heart, liver, pancreas and kidneys were able to be saved and donated to others.
On the night of Sept. 26, after it was certain her son was not going to survive, Demello wrote a goodbye on Facebook. “He will live on in my heart and through those recipients. I know he is with God, but the hole in my life he leaves will never go away. I love you, Son. Rest in peace,” she wrote.
Gilreath grew up in Apex, North Carolina and attended Wake STEM Early College High School, where he completed a year of college courses at North Carolina State University. He spent his freshman year of college at Virginia Tech, before the coronavirus forced campuses to close. He transferred to UNCW this fall, to study computer science. Before he got sick, Demello described her son as healthy and vibrant. He loved to wakeboard, water ski, and snow ski.
“This is just such a devastating shock. It’ll just leave such a hole in our heart forever that can never be filled,” Demello told WECT on Monday. “If these kids could just realize not only what this could do to them, but how devastating it is to everybody around them. I’m just begging them to please go get their shots.”
Since the beginning of the academic year at UNCW, 805 students, 37 faculty and one contractor have tested positive for COVID-19. Gilreath’s infection came at the beginning of a surge of cases in the last week of August, with nearly 100 students testing positive every day for four days in a row.
College campuses across the country have recklessly reopened in the last two months, resulting—despite the often-high rates of vaccination—in tens of thousands of infections, and needless deaths among students, faculty and staff. Almost every major campus has seen a significant outbreak of COVID-19. A significant share of those who fall ill will have long term symptoms and develop Long Covid.
Twenty-year-old Texas A&M University student Kirstyn Katherine Ahuero died from COVID-19 on September 8, triggering protests by students on campus and on social media to demand stricter restrictions or online courses to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
In the interest of profits from concessions and advertisement, tens of thousands of fans have been encouraged to pack into college football stadiums and other sports arenas without any serious restrictions. Meanwhile, professors and students who have protested have been dismissed or ignored by university administrators.
Students and workers must take up the demand for the eradiation of COVID-19 to protect lives and finally put an end to a pandemic with has killed more than 700,000 people in the United States and 4.7 million globally. This will require the closure of schools and non-essential businesses, combined with full compensation for those who remain at home, until the spread of COVID-19 is stopped and can be eliminated through the deployment of an effective testing, contact tracing and quarantine program in coordination with a truly global vaccination initiative.
Mayorkas: 1-in-5 Border Crossers Arrive to U.S. Sick with Illnesses
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says about 1-in-5 border crossers arriving at the United States-Mexico border are sick with illnesses.
During remarks at Georgetown University this week, Mayorkas revealed the extent to which federal immigration officials are encountering sick border crossers who are carrying viruses and diseases.
“We are confronted with a population of people that, as a general matter, that have a rate of illness of approximately 20 percent,” Mayorkas said, according to the Daily Mail.
“When one is speaking of 7,000 or 7,500 people encountered at the border every day, if one takes a look at that the system, it is not built for that in a Covid environment where isolation is required,” Mayorkas continued.
The comments came after White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki defended imposing proof of vaccination requirements for American citizens while allowing border crossers and illegal aliens to flout such rules.
“They’re not intending to stay here for a lengthy period of time,” Psaki said. “I don’t think it’s the same thing. It’s not the same thing.”
Days later, Mayorkas conceded that DHS did not test roughly 13,000 Haitian border crossers for the Chinese coronavirus before releasing them into the interior of the U.S. In early August, top DHS officials admitted in court briefs that federal immigration officials were seeing “significantly increased rates” of border crossers arriving in the U.S. while carrying coronavirus.
The Biden administration’s facilitation of bringing sick foreign nationals to the U.S. is not only a policy at the U.S.-Mexico border. As Breitbart News has reported, the administration’s massive resettlement of Afghans across the U.S. has posed serious public health concerns, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned.
This month, CDC officials confirmed that Afghans brought to the U.S. by the Biden administration have spurred outbreaks of measles, varicella, mumps, tuberculosis, malaria, leishmaniasis, hepatitis A, and coronavirus.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
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For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
This pocketbook opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.
This push amnesty is being led by Zuckerberg’s FWD.us network of coastal investors who stand to gain from more cheap labor, government-aided consumers, and urban renters.
The network has funded many astroturf campaigns, urged Democrats to not talk about the economic impact of migration, and manipulated coverage by the TV networks and the print media.
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EXCLUSIVE: 40K Haitian Migrants in Mexico Bound for U.S.
Mexican officials estimate more than 40,000 Haitian migrants are currently in that country trying to find a way to reach the U.S. border. A small fraction are trying to get documents to stay in Mexico.
Breitbart Texas met with high-level officials who revealed there are serious concerns in Mexico City about the large number of migrants in country with more inbound. The sources estimate 40,000 Haitians have some sort of permit to travel, apart from those entering in a clandestine fashion.
While Mexico’s National Immigration Institute initially tried to contain the migrants in southern states like Chiapas and Tabasco, the efforts proved deficient with more than 14,000 notoriously reaching the twin border cities of Acuna and Del Rio, Texas. The large numbers rapidly overwhelmed the U.S. Border Patrol. After pressure for perceived inaction, Mexico’s federal government cracked down on bus companies serving northbound Haitians. However, the move appears to be temporary since Mexican officials say they are underfunded and underequipped to care for the large number of migrants.
The concerns revealed to Breitbart Texas not only deal with enforcement issues, but humanitarian ones as well. Mexico lacks enough food, shelter, and sanitary resources to care for the more than 40,000 migrants already in the country.
To divert attention from the looming humanitarian crisis, Mexico’s National Immigration institute has begun announcing the return of Haitian migrants by airplane. This week, INM agents flew 70 Haitians from Tabasco to Port Au Prince.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
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