‘Please take care of my son.’ Dad dies of COVID after ‘regret’ for skipping vaccine

Days before his death from COVID-19, Christian Cabrera told his family he wished he’d made better choices.

“I can’t breathe again,” the 40-year-old wrote in a text to his brother from his hospital bed, KTLA reported. “I really regret not getting my vaccine, if I can do it all over again I would do it in a heartbeat to save my life. I’m fighting for my life here and I wish I (had) gotten vaccinated.”

Cabrera, of West Hollywood, died Saturday, Jan. 22, with double pneumonia caused by COVID-19, said a GoFundMe established by his family to pay his funeral expenses.

“We’re completely heartbroken!” the GoFundMe post reads. “He touched so many people’s lives because was a very loving, kind, generous, caring person with a beautiful heart and soul.”

Cabrera leaves behind a 3-year-old son, the post said.

“He keeps saying, ‘Please keep take care of my son,’” Jino Cabrera told KTLA before his brother’s death. “He knows he might not make it.”

Christian Cabrera also posted about his illness to his Instagram account, where he normally posted humorous videos. It has more than 100,000 followers.

“This has to be the worst pain i ever had in my life!” he wrote, noting he’d been in intensive care for a week and thanking his fans for their well wishes.

“i can hear all ya prayers (in) my sleep!” Cabrera wrote. “Thank you and hope to see ya all soon!”

More than 352 million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed worldwide with more than 5.5 million deaths as of Monday, Jan. 24, according to Johns Hopkins University. The United States has had more than 70 million confirmed cases with more than 866,000 deaths.

This story was originally published January 24, 2022 at 11:12 AM with the headline "‘Please take care of my son.’ Dad dies of COVID after ‘regret’ for skipping vaccine."