A lifelong Stockport County fan died at just 46 from Covid-19 — after being unable to get the vaccine. Rob Wellings, from Buxton, passed away in hospital on December 1, after battling the virus for ‘a number of weeks’.
He was unable to get the coronavirus vaccine due to ongoing treatment for cellulitis, friend Simon Maguire told the Manchester Evening News. READ MORE: School closes almost a week early as Covid hits all-but nine classroom staff “He fought it off for a bit and then it came back,” he said. “He had a real ordeal with it. “He was on a ventilator, and then they got him back.
Then he caught pneumonia. “That took him back down. It was one thing after another.” Simon, who would go to County matches with Rob, remembered his friend