Alabama Doctor: Witnesses Patients Dying From Covid Asking For The Vaccine At The End [View all]

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Daily Kos, July 21, 2021. The Hill has a story out today of an Alabama doctor who has witnessed multiple patients dying of COVID-19 to please give them the vaccine.

An Alabama doctor is opening up about her experience treating those hospitalized for the coronavirus amid a resurgence of cases, saying dying patients are asking her to vaccinate them. “One of the last things they do before they're intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I'm sorry, but it's too late," Brytney Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, wrote on Facebook this week.

“A few days later when I call time of death, I hug their family members and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to go get vaccinated and encourage everyone they know to do the same,” Cobia added.

I really do not know what to say to that. Most of my empathy for anti-vaxxers and COVID-19 deniers dying has dried up long ago. I suppose I should feel a modicum of pity that there are some who want to suddenly be vaccinated when near death. It sounds a lot better than the arrogant assholes we have read about from South Dakota who screamed abuse at doctors and nurses that they did not have COVID-19. Give me hydrochloroquine they screamed! And the only thing that got them to stop screaming was to be intubated.

But as the article points out, Alabama has one of the worst rates of complete vaccination for COVID-19. And like many other red states, the citizens of Alabama have been baptized into the Death Cult of Trumpism. And what they have done is made a choice...

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/7/21/2041104/-Alabama-Doctor-Recounts-Witnessing-Patients-Dying-from-COVID-19-Asking-For-The-Vaccine-Near-The-End