9 y.o. Maleigha Turner from Lexington North Carolina was severely ill from multisystem inflammatory syndrome due to COVID. “I feel that if she had not been vaccinated, my baby probably would have ended up on that ventilator that she was close to getting on” #KidsLivingWithCovid
“All she could do was scream ‘help me, help me, help me,’ which broke my heart. Your baby going through that, and there’s nothing you can do,” myfox8.com/news/coronavir…
Vaccines are 91% effective against multisystem inflammatory syndrome due to COVID
It attacks the
Heart ➡️myocarditis
Lungs ➡️pneumonia
Brain➡️ seizures
GI ➡️ diarrhea ➡️ renal failure
It forms blood CLOTS in
Lungs➡️pulmonary embolism
Heart➡️heart attack
Brain➡️stroke
Kidney➡️ renal failure➡️dialysis
Leg artery➡️amputation
There are a significant number of people suffering from #LongCovid among the 409 million infected. This needs more attention b/c #LongCovid will be part of our future @mvankerkhove
COVID-19 is a systemic disease. Vaccination reduces your risk of severe infection @DrAbdiMahamud
Ted Walinski, 75, from Georgetown Texas died from COVID in 2020, three weeks after getting a kidney transplant. This month the Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter found out he donated $143,000 to the shelter #SoulsLostToCovidstatesman.com/story/news/202…
Ted's wife Janet, 67, died of breast cancer in 2015. During their lives they adopted three cats from the shelter and Janet Walinski also brought stray cats to the facility
The Walinskis saw the facility's previous director, Cheryl Schneider, increase the shelter's rate of saving animals lives to 90% and wanted to support that, she said.
30 y.o. Missy Martinez, second-grade teacher in Albuquerque New Mexico died from COVID Feb 4, 2022. She led the Cougars to three consecutive state softball championships from 2007-09. Omicron is a deadly virus. #SoulsLostToCovidabqjournal.com/2472218/radian…
After high school, Martinez moved on to play at New Mexico Highlands, where she was chosen the national player of the week in her first week as a freshman after throwing a no-hitter in her college debut.
Martinez played two seasons at Highlands before leaving the sport to focus on attaining her degree in elementary education.
An organ transplant team's charter plane was unable to return back to St. Louis from Chicago due to bad weather. With only 8 hours to get the lungs back, they rushed to Midway Airport & were able to get on the only flight leaving that morning fox2now.com/news/missouri/…
“I walked up to the counter and told the ticket agent that I’m a doctor, this is a set of human lungs I’m carrying for an organ transplant, and you guys have a flight that leaves at 6:20. I need to be on it,” Dr. Caldwell said.
Dr. Caldwell said she and her team then sprinted through Midway with their scrubs on and with their precious cargo in tow.
“I just kept thinking how valuable what we’re doing is and that I’m not gonna let this not happen”
*There are actually 418 patients hospitalized for COVID within this large healthcare system in South Carolina. Many hospitals stopped including patients that no longer test positive as COVID-19 hospitalizations, even though they are still hospitalized.
Omicron is not "mild." It is less severe than delta, but hospitalizations and deaths continue to increase due to Omicron. Worldwide deaths have increased for the 6th week in a row @mvankerkhove
It's the 6th week in a row that we're seeing increasing deaths from COVID-19. In the last week alone ~75,000 people died. And we know that is an underestimate @mvankerkhove
75,000 people died from COVID last week. At the peak of this pandemic, at the highest week ever there were 110,000 deaths and that was considered to be the most awful week in the pandemic. We're at 75,000. It's not a whole long way from there @DrMikeRyan