Thread by @DrEricDing

📍A 24-year-old man refused the vaccine, but then contracted #COVID19 (in Florida), got hospitalized, intubated, on ventilator, got ECMO, and required a double lung transplant… expresses his regret not vaccinating. Don’t let this be you or your family! 🧵
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2) “He wanted to wait a few years to see, you know, if there’s any side effects or anything from it,” said Paul Nuclo, his stepfather. “As soon as he got in the hospital, though, he said he wished he had gotten the vaccine.”

3) Once hospitalized, however, he asked to be inoculated. 

“The night before he was intubated, he wanted it,” Nuclo said. “So it was a little bit too late then.”

Bargatze had **no preexisting medical conditions**!

4) We also need to vaccinate kids. Look at what is happening suddenly to kids almost certain infected with #DeltaVariant in Mississippi. 7 in the ICU, 2 on life support.

5) Young adults also need to avoid these mass gatherings like concerns and sports matches. While most are outdoors, there’s lots of indoor side activities and after parties. You can say they are low risk, but quite a few will get very very sick https://t.co/hxnfoaVoVn

6) Let this sink in—“The peak of this epidemic would really be sometime around the end of September," says @ScottGottliebMD. "Unfortunately the worst is yet to come."

7) we are reaching that point where we must start shielding anyone not vaccinated - or even if vaccinated, elderly and those whom# are immunocompromised like sufferers of chronic diseases. Mississippi’s Dr Dobbs @TCBPubHealth is right…

8) “but but but… nobody could have foreseen all this”…. folks… that damn alarmist “fearmonger”…

9) Mask, vax, or throat jack?

10) In contrast^, mask and vax don’t seem so bad. That’s also why @CDCDirector must have the @CDCgov reinstate mask rules ASAP. Please walk it back. #DeltaVariant surging too fast.