Dr. Brytney Cobia, who works in a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama, cannot fulfill her Covid patient’s last wish before ventilation. She says shortly before her patients are connected to the ventilator, they would ask for the corona vaccine.
“I am currently taking in young healthy people with very severe Covid infections,” she wrote on Sunday in an emotional Facebook post. “One of the last things you do before you get intubated is ask me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them I’m sorry – but it’s too late. “
Most of the infected patients currently in the hospital would not have received the vaccination. Those patients who have been vaccinated usually only need oxygen for a short time and then recover, she says «AL.com».
“They thought it was a joke”
“When I declare patients for death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor a loved one is to get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same,” she writes continue on Facebook.
She also describes the reaction of relatives: “They are crying. And they tell me they didn’t know They thought it was a joke. They thought it was political. They thought that because they had a certain blood type or skin color, they wouldn’t get so sick. They thought it was ‘just the flu’. But they were wrong. And they wish they could change it. But they can’t do that. “
In Alabama in particular, the US vaccination rate is extremely low. The state is at the bottom of the nation: Only 33.7 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. In the US, just under 50 percent of people are fully vaccinated. (euc)