12-year-old boy gets vaccine for birthday after dad died from COVID-19 last year

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12-year-old boy gets vaccine for birthday after dad died from COVID-19 last year
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Charles 'Rob' Roberts, a Glen Ridge police officer and the 12-year-old boy's father, died of COVID-19 last May. He was 45.

"I kept asking him what he wanted for his birthday," she said."He was always saying it's the vaccine, we're going to get that."

Charles"Rob" Roberts, a Glen Ridge police officer and Gavin's father, died of COVID-19 on May 11, three weeks after he collapsed in his home in late April, Alice wrote in a column published onAlice said her husband was in good health and took the virus"very seriously," but at the time of his infection, COVID-19 testing was sparse and vaccines weren't available.

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