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Tulsans of the Year: Nurse's wake-up call for COVID-19 shots goes global as daughter hospitalized

By Tulsa World  
   December 05, 2021

Amelia Cannon, then a registered nurse in the emergency room at Tulsa’s Saint Francis Hospital, posted gripping Facebook posts in August that became a wake-up call that went worldwide.

At the time, Cannon was not only a nurse on staff but also the mother of one of the youngest critical COVID-19 patients ever treated at the Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis. She believes she gave her 3-year-old daughter Aurora Cannon the virus after contracting it from one of the many unvaccinated patients she had treated at work.

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