🇺🇸 24 y.o. Blake Bargatze from #Georgia contracted COVID during April at an indoor concert in #Florida. He wishes he was vaccinated after spending months in 3 different hospitals and needing a double lung transplant. #TheySurvivedCovidusatoday.com/story/news/nat…
🇺🇸 25 y.o. Marcus Hartford, chef from Toledo #Ohio contracted COVID in April from a birthday party at the restaurant he worked at. He spent 81 days on an ECMO machine, but still needs a ventilator to help him breathe. #TheySurvivedCovidnbcnews.com/health/health-…
🇺🇸 24 y.o. Colby Vondenstein from Crosby #Texas contracted COVID after spending Christmas with family members. The father of 3, survived after getting a double lung and kidney transplant transplant. #TheySurvivedCovidtoday.com/health/24-year…
🇺🇸 33 y.o. Andrew Capen contracted COVID in July while traveling for work to Corpus Christi #Texas. After 6 months of ECMO he received a double-lung transplant. He's recovering at @NorasHomeTMC & lifting spirits w/ his drive to persevere #TheySurvivedCovidnorashome.org/news/young-cov…
🇺🇸 17 y.o. Jose Luis Chavez from Brownsville #Texas contracted COVID in September then spent 5 months in the hospital on ECMO. He survived after receiving a double lung transplant. #TheySurvivedCovid6abc.com/covid-vaccine-…
🇺🇸 43 y.o. Dave Hoover from Stanford #Kentucky contracted COVID in late January. After weeks on the waiting list & 33 days on ECMO, the former bodybuilder was the state's first double lung transplant recipient. He went home April 23 #TheySurvivedCovidspectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/…
🇺🇸 Byron Bolanos, respiratory therapist from Shreveport #Louisiana contracted COVID in late January. After months on life support, he received a double lung transplant on July 10, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona. Vaccination status unknown. #TheySurvivedCovidgofundme.com/f/bsxnd-byrons…
42 y.o. Nathan Foote, father of 5, from Sioux Falls #SouthDakota posted this video to Facebook on January 4, 2021 saying his only chance to survive COVID was a lung transplant "So now, I sit and wait. I wait for death to come" #TheySurvivedCovidkeloland.com/news/healthbea…
On April 10, 2021 Nathan Foote received a double lung transplant in Minneapolis #Minnesota and was discharged May 3. He takes 38 different medications twice a day and they are adjusted as needed by the transplant team. #TheySurvivedCovid
🇺🇸24 y.o. Blake Bargatze from #Georgia contracted COVID in April at an indoor concert in #Florida. He refused vaccination & is now a double lung transplant recipient. His mom is imploring people to get vaccinated #TheySurvivedCovid
🇺🇸 28 y.o. Mayra Ramirez was the first COVID patient to undergo a double lung transplant on June 5 2020. Mayra worked as a paralegal for an immigration law firm in Chicago. She enjoyed walking her dogs and running 5K races. #TheySurvivedCovid
🇺🇸 31 y.o. Jackie Dennis, a special education teacher at the Huron School District in New Boston #Michigan underwent a double lung transplant due to COVID on January 16, seven weeks after the birth of her daughter Mia Rose. #TheySurvivedCovidhenryford.com/news/2021/03/c…
31 y.o. Daryl Barker from #Missouri: "I was strongly against getting the vaccine, just because we're a strong conservative family. But that little boy out there is the reason to have a vaccine"
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🧵@WHO updates on the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last week we saw an 8% increases in cases detected with more than 11 million reported, despite a significant reduction of testing occurring worldwide @mvankerkhove
99.9% of sequences provided in the last 30 days are #Omicron. Among those ~75% are BA.2 & 25% BA.1. All of these are variants of concern. However, our ability to track Omicron is compromised because testing is reduced. You can't sequence those who you do not test! @mvankerkhove
COVID-19 vaccines remain incredibly effective at preventing severe disease and death, including against Omicron @mvankerkhove
Omicron is a deadly virus. 28-year-old James Perkinson from Greenbrier #Tennessee was hospitalized at Vanderbilt December 23, 2021 and recently weaned off ECMO. He contracted COVID two days before his scheduled vaccination #TheySurvivedCovid
28 y.o. James Perkinson from Greenbrier #Tennessee would have died from the Omicron variant without ECMO. "I have to pretty much start over again. Learn how to walk, move my arms, eat, drink, everything. I'm back at square one." #TheySurvivedCovid
28 y.o. James Perkinson from Greenbrier #Tennessee has a minimum 9 month recovery after nearly dying from the Omicron variant. Interviewed by @ReporterGoodman
COVID-19 damages the endothelium of blood vessels in the body, which promotes the formation of blood clots. 50% of pulmonary embolisms due to COVID are not associated with deep vein thrombosis. Dr. George Chrysant Interventional Cardiologist in Oklahoma City #TheySurvivedCovid
COVID-19 is a systemic disease, which means that it can affect any organ in the body. The virus may directly attack an organ or indirectly affect the organ by damage to the blood vessels supplying it.
COVID is a systemic disease
It attacks the
Heart ➡️myocarditis
Lungs ➡️pneumonia
Brain➡️ seizures
GI ➡️ diarrhea ➡️ renal failure
It forms blood CLOTS in vessels
Lungs➡️pulmonary embolism
Heart➡️heart attack
Brain➡️stroke
Kidney➡️ renal failure➡️dialysis
Leg artery➡️amputation
Omicron is a deadly virus. Former UFC star 41 y.o. Chris "The Crippler" Leben from San Diego CA is recovering from COVID after being on life support. He declined to talk about his vaccination status. This was his second battle with COVID #TheySurvivedCovid10news.com/news/local-new…
“I was ready to tap out, and the reason I didn’t tap is because of my child … If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t have had the fight to get through those days,” said Leben.
There is a disinformation campaign that young people are not affected by COVID-19 and that #Omicron is mild. These are both incorrect. Vaccination against COVID-19 protects against severe disease.
44 y.o. Tom Urey from Townville Pennsylvania died from COVID in December 2021. His wife, Mandy, 32, died 4 weeks later. #SoulsLostToCovid
“There are days I’d like to sit and cry and drown,” said grandma, “but I have two little boys to raise.... People should get vaccinated.... it could prevent you from getting it so bad that you wind up on a ventilator and possibly losing your life.”
There's no doubt that cases of COVID are decreasing, which is great! However to truly capture the seriousness of the current surge we must end the reclassification of COVID-19 hospitalizations based upon testing positive. I applaud this hospital system for at least providing an *
You should still be counted as a COVID-19 hospitalization after you test negative