New Orleans business owner Angelle Mosley devoted her life to fashion and letting other young girls know they too could follow their dreams. Mosley, 33, and fully vaccinated, died Sunday following a COVID-19 diagnosis.”She said ‘I know I do not have COVID. I still can smell and taste. And I am vaccinated.’ But when she got to the hospital, turns out she had it,” said Tara Mosley, Angelle’s mom.Mosley said Angelle texted her last Thursday saying she did not feel well. She went to the hospital where she was later diagnosed, and eventually released. By the weekend she was back in the hospital. “Her neighbor brought her at 2 or 3 in the morning. She said, ‘They will keep me because I have pneumonia and a high fever,'” Tara Mosley said.On Sunday, Mosley received a call from a doctor. Angelle passed later that day.”He said her heart rate was dropping. It was that moment I knew,” Mosley said.Angelle was described as a well-loved and driven business woman. In June of this year she opened her first business. Brave Beautique, a shop specializing in fashion for plus-size women. Her mom said Angelle was also very strong in her faith. She attended Greater St. Stephen Church.It did not take long for people from across the New Orleans community to start paying their respects on social media after hearing about Angelle’s death.Deloris Fisher owns M&J Soulfood Restaurant, and stopped over to drop off flowers.”I was just talking to her on last Tuesday. Found out this morning that she was gone. Did not even know she was sick. We are going to miss her very much,” said Fisher. As COVID-19 cases throughout the U.S. continue to rise, and the number of breakthrough infections heighten, Mosley’s family is still encouraging others to mask up and vaccinate. Also to live a healthy lifestyle.”One of the things that I will say contributed to her death, Angelle was large for her age. She was obese. The variant that is out right now. It is showing us it is really serious. I saw this with my own child’s life,” said Mosley.Officials with Louisiana Department of Health said of all the COVID-19 deaths reported last week, vaccinated people accounted for less than 10%. Currently 90% of those hospitalized with COVID-19 are unvaccinated.Health leaders still urge everyone to get vaccinated for protection against the virus including the delta variant.
NEW ORLEANS —
New Orleans business owner Angelle Mosley devoted her life to fashion and letting other young girls know they too could follow their dreams.
Mosley, 33, and fully vaccinated, died Sunday following a COVID-19 diagnosis.
“She said ‘I know I do not have COVID. I still can smell and taste. And I am vaccinated.’ But when she got to the hospital, turns out she had it,” said Tara Mosley, Angelle’s mom.
Mosley said Angelle texted her last Thursday saying she did not feel well. She went to the hospital where she was later diagnosed, and eventually released. By the weekend she was back in the hospital.
“Her neighbor brought her at 2 or 3 in the morning. She said, ‘They will keep me because I have pneumonia and a high fever,'” Tara Mosley said.
On Sunday, Mosley received a call from a doctor. Angelle passed later that day.
“He said her heart rate was dropping. It was that moment I knew,” Mosley said.
Angelle was described as a well-loved and driven business woman. In June of this year she opened her first business. Brave Beautique, a shop specializing in fashion for plus-size women.
Her mom said Angelle was also very strong in her faith. She attended Greater St. Stephen Church.
It did not take long for people from across the New Orleans community to start paying their respects on social media after hearing about Angelle’s death.
Deloris Fisher owns M&J Soulfood Restaurant, and stopped over to drop off flowers.
“I was just talking to her on last Tuesday. Found out this morning that she was gone. Did not even know she was sick. We are going to miss her very much,” said Fisher.
As COVID-19 cases throughout the U.S. continue to rise, and the number of breakthrough infections heighten, Mosley’s family is still encouraging others to mask up and vaccinate. Also to live a healthy lifestyle.
“One of the things that I will say contributed to her death, Angelle was large for her age. She was obese. The variant that is out right now. It is showing us it is really serious. I saw this with my own child’s life,” said Mosley.
Officials with Louisiana Department of Health said of all the COVID-19 deaths reported last week, vaccinated people accounted for less than 10%.
Currently 90% of those hospitalized with COVID-19 are unvaccinated.
Health leaders still urge everyone to get vaccinated for protection against the virus including the delta variant.