Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports:
The son of a grieving mother is being used as a poster child on anti-vaccine sites and she wants to clear up the false accusations. Janaye Creecy said several websites are using her story and family photos for political use, insinuating her son died from the COVID-vaccine.
The Pulaski mother found the unsettling posts as she made plans to bury her child while still waiting on an autopsy to find out why 15-year-old Quinton Cox died.
As she looked further into where the comments were coming from, she found several anti-vaccine websites were using a photo of her son wearing a mask, along with a picture of her insinuating the COVID-vaccine was to blame for Quinton’s death. Deepening the heartache, Creecy said Quinton’s father died from COVID-19 complications in 2020.
Read the full article. Anti-vaxxers are pouring into the comments of the YouTube clip below.
Mother warding off anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists after son’s death https://t.co/khKYSYeOXW
— WKRN News 2 (@WKRN) February 8, 2024