OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The COVID-19 pandemic has left a long-lasting affect felt by so many Oklahomans – and tonight a metro girl is sharing her household’s story.
Christina Sanchez misplaced two family members to the virus – and is now coping with the impact it is had on the job market.
“I’d say they have been thought-about newlyweds as a result of they have been married November of 2019,” mentioned Sanchez.
Sanchez’s son Joe and his spouse Lizbeth have been simply beginning their life collectively
“They have been just a bit mixed household,” Christina mentioned. “This was going to be their first son collectively and so they have been so excited.”
However pleasure rapidly turned to heartache in July of 2023.
At six months pregnant, Lizbeth was identified with COVID-19, not lengthy after, she was within the ICU.
The household prayed.
Medical doctors tried the whole lot.
“She was crying, she was like, ‘they can not take my child,'” mentioned Sanchez.
Tragically – her child boy handed away July nineteenth.
“Then on the thirty first, she handed away,” Christina mentioned. “They are saying she died of poisonous shock. I am sorry, typically I feel I am over it and I am not.”
It was a devastating blow in a determined time for Christina and her household.
“Via COVID, at the moment I used to be laid off from a earlier job and I used to be making use of in all places,” she mentioned.
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When the chance got here to be a contact tracer for the state, she took it, figuring out she may probably save households the identical heartbreak she confronted.
“It was thrilling, it was nice, we went in every single day and it was nice pay,” Christina mentioned.
However when the state ended the contact tracing program – it was again to sq. one.
“I can not discover a job,” mentioned Christina. “I’ve my bachelor’s diploma and I am trying.”
Christina says she additionally doesn’t qualify for the state’s $1,200 incentive for many who are getting off unemployment to get again to work.
“The place’s the inducement for all of the folks which were working all through all of this?” she mentioned.
This mother, with a younger youngster nonetheless in her residence, is set to discover a job to contribute and pay the payments.
“I can not let you know how irritating that’s,” mentioned Christina. “I can not let you know how disheartening it’s.”
Christina says she shared her story of not qualifying for the profit with the governor’s workplace.
She tells us they thanked her for her enter.
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