Jesús Gómez, right, took this photo of himself, his father and some of their family during the last family trip to Mexico in 2018. His father, J. Jesús Gómez Flores, died on Jan. 20, 2021 of COVID-19 complications in Guadalajara, Mexico, at age 89. On Jan.22, the day he was buried, the son got his first dose of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at a Walgreens near his home in Evanston. (Jesús Gómez)
The same day a man was buried in Mexico after dying from COVID-19, his son in Evanston got his first dose of vaccine: ‘He almost made it’
