‘Bubble boy’ David Vetter, 12, dies 30 years ago this hour (Feb 22 1984)


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(Wednesday, February 22, 1984, 8:00 p.m. CST) — David Vetter, a 12-year-old Texas boy who’d spent most of his life in a plastic bubble because he had no immunity to disease, died today, 15 days after being removed from the bubble for a bone-marrow transplant.