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US doctor sounds the alarm: Corona infected people beg for vaccine - the number of sick people is increasing again

2021-07-22T11:21:22.287Z


The number of new corona infections is also rising again in the USA. A doctor now appeals to her still unvaccinated compatriots. In drastic terms.


The number of new corona infections is also rising again in the USA.

A doctor now appeals to her still unvaccinated compatriots.

In drastic terms.

Birmingham - The corona situation in the USA is slowly coming to a head.

According to official information, 52,032 new infections with the corona virus were reported to the authorities on Wednesday (July 21).

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the number was almost 20,000 higher than a week earlier.

Estimates by the CDC health authority showed that the Delta variant, which is considered to be particularly contagious, is responsible for around 83 percent of all new corona infections recorded in the USA.

More and more US citizens would have to be treated in hospital, the CDC fears a further increase in hospital admissions in the coming weeks.

Corona in the USA: Not all citizens get vaccinated - the doctor describes depressing experiences

In the United States to date, 56.8 percent of the population received their first dose of vaccine. 49.2 percent of Americans are considered fully vaccinated (

source: Our World in Data / as of July 20, 2021

). But apparently not all people in the USA are aware of the importance of vaccination protection in the fight against the corona pandemic. A doctor from the US state of Alabama now described her experiences on Facebook with infected patients who were not vaccinated against the corona virus.

"I am currently taking in young healthy people with very severe Covid infections," wrote Brytney Cobia, who works in a hospital in Birmingham.

“One of the last things you do before you get intubated is ask me for the vaccine.

I hold your hand and tell them I'm sorry - but it's too late. "

According to her own statements, the doctor often tried to speak to the bereaved in the conscience of corona deaths.

"When I declare patients dead, I hug their family members and I tell them, 'The best way to honor your loved one is to get vaccinated and encourage everyone you know to do the same'" Cobia explained in her post.

US doctor on refusal to vaccinate: "They thought it was political or just the flu"

In Alabama, the corona vaccination rate is particularly low.

The US state ranks last nationwide with 33.9 percent fully vaccinated and 41.5 percent of people who have received a vaccination to date.

Meanwhile, the reasons for not having the corona vaccinations are terrifying.

This was also shown by the reactions that doctor Corbia in Birmingham received from relatives of the deceased.

“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', ”said the doctor, describing her experience in the clinic.

Corbia added warningly: “But you were wrong.

And they wish they could change it.

But they cannot do that. "

(Kh)

Source: merkur

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