6 y.o. Zyaire Bell from Las Vegas #Nevada underwent more than a half-dozen surgeries as doctors worked to save his life from multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children due to COVID. The medical bill is ONE MILLION dollars. #KidsLivingWithCovid
🇮🇹 28 y.o. Adriana Tanoni from Aprilia, Italy was 8 months pregnant with her second child when she died from COVID on January 20, 2022. She was turned away from hospital admission three times #PregnantSoulsLostToCovidromatoday.it/cronaca/mamma-…
Adriana did not get vaccinated following advice of her gynecologist, as told by her parents, who are demanding justice.
🇮🇹 An unvaccinated family of 6 from Enna Italy all died from COVID within a month beginning Christmas Eve. "My fellow citizens are terrified. I just can't understand. Most villagers are vaccinated," said the mayor #SoulsLostToCovidcorriere.it/cronache/22_fe…
Italian-English Translation below
A family like many. People known by all and esteemed. Retired seniors. Vincenzo described as an honest worker, Concetta was a hairdresser and her sister Maria the housewife. The mayor knew them by sight.
🕯️Moment of silence for 33 y.o. Dr. Li Wenliang, Ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital in China. On February 7, 2020 he died from COVID after warning the world of a mysterious pneumonia in late December 2019. #SoulsLostToCovid
🇧🇷 A year and half ago, before vaccines were available, 34 y.o. Dijane Silva from Taquarana Brazil developed a life-threatening condition following a COVID-19 infection that caused her to stop breathing when she fell asleep called Ondine Syndrome #TheySurvivedCovid 1/9
The name is derived from a mythical tale. The nymph Ondine was an immortal water spirit who became human after falling in love. In one of the versions of the tale, she caught her husband having an affair then cursed him to remain awake in order to control his own breathing. 2/9
Ondine Syndrome causes hypoxemia because the brain is unable to detect changes in carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the body during sleep, which determine the breathing rate. Normally, high levels of CO2 increase breathing, whereas low levels of CO2 decrease breathing. 3/9
🇮🇹 Biologist Franco Trinca, one of the coordinators of the “United for free choice” movement made up of various anti-vax associations died from Covid at a hospital in Città di Castello #Italy on Feb 4, 2022. #SoulsLostToCovidcorriere.it/cronache/22_fe…
“Trinca has been a supporter of the use of vitamin C pills to treat COVID patients, according to Mediafax. On a TV show broadcast in September 2021, he stated that he did not get vaccinated because he "felt " that he had a good immune system”
“Franco Trinca had also been the protagonist of heated TV clashes with Selvaggia Lucarelli, expressing himself in favor of alternative therapies against covid, such as the use of hydroxychloroquine, vitamin C and flavonoids.”
7 y.o. Finn from Jarrell #Texas was rushed to the emergency room severely ill from multisystem inflammatory syndrome due to COVID. "This was my healthy child, and all of a sudden he's crashing and it just was unreal" #KidsLivingWithCovidkvue.com/article/news/h…
Finn was diagnosed with MIS-C at age 7, a month after recovering from COVID-19.
"After your body has completely cleared the virus, your immune system has kind of gone hyper-inflamed and is overworking and now is gone too high and is fighting something that's no longer there in the body," Dr. Keren Hasbani, a pediatric cardiologist at Dell Children's, said.