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McEntee said Aaron’s death had ignited a “passion” in him that no other family should have go through what Aaron’s had.<\/p>\n

“He was capable, kind – the gentlest, warmest person you could meet,” he said. “And he’d want nobody else to suffer the same fate.”<\/p>\n

He is aiming to raise \u00a32,000 for the charity Meningitis Now.<\/p>\n

“Ultimately, every step is in Aaron’s name,” said McEntee. “It’s to raise awareness, to raise funds, all of that. But it’s all got to be for Aaron.<\/p>\n

“It’s almost as if it’s him raising the awareness, and I think that’s poignant.”<\/p>\n

But McEntee’s challenge is also a celebration of Aaron and his legacy.<\/p>\n

“The Mills family campaigned so hard,” he explained. “Aaron’s story was so influential in the government’s decision to roll out [the vaccine].<\/p>\n

“So we should be celebrating that, and celebrating Aaron.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McEntee said Aaron’s death had ignited a “passion” in him that no other family should have go through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-756526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}