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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 05:32 AM Jan 2022

Unvaccinated 28-Year-Old in Denial of COVID Diagnosis Dies After Ripping Off Oxygen Mask

Jenni Fink - Yesterday 2:28 PM

A28-year-old man who bucked the reality of COVID-19 died in an Italian hospital and his father is on a ventilator still battling the virus.

Italian news outlets said Luigi Cossellu was admitted to the hospital on January 16. He was reportedly unvaccinated against COVID-19 and questioned his diagnosis even after being transferred to a hospital's Intensive Care Unit.

Cossellu was being treated in Latina, south of Rome, and at one point tore off his oxygen mask, according to Ansa, an Italian wire service. After denying he had COVID-19, he reluctantly put the mask back on and Ansa reported that he died at Latina's Santa Maria Goretti Hospital.

When Cossellu was admitted, he had severe respiratory failure, according to Italian newspaper L'Unione Sarda. Silvia Cavalli, director-general of the Azienda Sanitaria Locale of Latina, told Il Gazzettino, an Italian newspaper, that unvaccinated people frequently arrive at the hospital only after the virus has progressed to more serious symptoms.

More:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/unvaccinated-28-year-old-in-denial-of-covid-diagnosis-dies-after-ripping-off-oxygen-mask/ar-AAT6963?li=BBnb7Kz



Luigi Cossellu

R.I.P.

riposare in pace



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Unvaccinated 28-Year-Old in Denial of COVID Diagnosis Dies After Ripping Off Oxygen Mask (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2022 OP
Bye RandySF Jan 2022 #1
It must be a frightening way to die. Tomconroy Jan 2022 #2
seems like that would make everyone want to be vaccinated Skittles Jan 2022 #4
Beyond horrible. My rheumatologist's practice has a lot of Hortensis Jan 2022 #7
It was a "normal" covid death, not from pulling off the mask, which he "reluctantly" put back on. thesquanderer Jan 2022 #22
Oh, well Sherman A1 Jan 2022 #3
He was a denier to the end, gotta admit that's commitment! Emile Jan 2022 #5
Was that the Mr.T look? rockfordfile Jan 2022 #6
I pity the poor fool! FSogol Jan 2022 #14
So he's dead then oswaldactedalone Jan 2022 #8
Breakfast time! czarjak Jan 2022 #12
I fully support that. LOVE the breakfast dinner! oldsoftie Jan 2022 #19
The virus wasn't terrified... SergeStorms Jan 2022 #9
whileit was his choice weissmam Jan 2022 #10
Terror LiberatedUSA Jan 2022 #11
I guess there are freedumbers everywhere captain queeg Jan 2022 #13
stupid kills - no sympathy bringthePaine Jan 2022 #15
Survival of the fittest .. Darwinian evolutionary theory got him ... nt Jarqui Jan 2022 #16
Bound and determined Grokenstein Jan 2022 #17
Not just a US problem. Worldwide. oldsoftie Jan 2022 #18
See! These deniers are worldwide! eom LittleGirl Jan 2022 #20
Support your local Funeral Homes and Gravediggers! NurseJackie Jan 2022 #21
Sad but why is this international news? ecstatic Jan 2022 #23
He was a big hero with the anti vaccine crowd, why? Don't know why. Emile Jan 2022 #24
it's a goober! stopdiggin Jan 2022 #25
Let's Go Darwin LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2022 #26

Skittles

(152,967 posts)
4. seems like that would make everyone want to be vaccinated
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 06:09 AM
Jan 2022

I cannot imagine risking dying like that, struggling to breathe, when there are ways to perhaps avoid it.....it is insanity

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. Beyond horrible. My rheumatologist's practice has a lot of
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 06:21 AM
Jan 2022

immunocompromised patients. She says most those who survived Covid intubation were traumatized by what they went through.

28 years old. On top of everything, he had to be afraid that his caregivers were lying and willing to let him die rather than treat him properly. RIP.

thesquanderer

(11,955 posts)
22. It was a "normal" covid death, not from pulling off the mask, which he "reluctantly" put back on.
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 08:33 AM
Jan 2022

The headline makes it sound like he pulled off his mask and died, but those things happened at different times (the article says "at one point tore off his oxygen mask" ). The article doesn't actually tell us much about his death... whether he was on a ventilator, whether he was unaware by then, etc.

SergeStorms

(18,903 posts)
9. The virus wasn't terrified...
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 07:05 AM
Jan 2022

of his Italian Stallioniness?

Some viruses just refuse to be intimidated I guess.

captain queeg

(10,036 posts)
13. I guess there are freedumbers everywhere
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 07:54 AM
Jan 2022

Even though it’s his own fault I wouldn’t wish that kind of death on anyone. And yet deniers are not swayed. I read recently where a couple family members died of covid and the families made statements blaming Biden. I really don’t feel sympathy for these sorts.

oldsoftie

(12,410 posts)
18. Not just a US problem. Worldwide.
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 08:21 AM
Jan 2022

Just foolish
Just look at the stats EVERYWHERE. I don't need clinical trials when I see that

stopdiggin

(11,095 posts)
25. it's a goober!
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 09:40 AM
Jan 2022

I didn't know they made these outside a few select U.S. locations. Is there a franchise in Italy?

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