Louisiana man dies of COVID-19 after calling vaccines ‘poison’

Alan Scott Lanoix’s three sons had to bury him on Father’s Day after his death from COVID-19. The Louisiana-born man refused to be vaccinated because he considered it a “poison”. He died on June 9 at the age of 54.

Lanoix caught COVID-19 at his manufacturing job. His sister, Lisa Adler, believed he would recover and then be immune, she told WWL-TV. However, his sons and his wife, who was also his girlfriend in high school, also contracted the virus. He ended up being hospitalized for 17 days, spending part of those days on a ventilator.

Towards the end of his life, he told his sister that no matter what, he was happy with his life and he loved his family, Adler told the station. Adler said his final farewells to Lanoix via an online video chat as he died in hospital.

“He thought the vaccine was poison and he was afraid to get it, and there are a lot of people who feel the same,” Adler said. “I urge anyone if they hesitate to get the vaccine, do so in memory of my brother.”

Almost all deaths from COVID-19 in the United States are now unvaccinated people, the Associated Press reported in late June after studying data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Only about 1% of all pandemic-related deaths occurred among those vaccinated in May, the AP said.

CDC Director Dr Rochelle Walensky said current vaccinations in the United States are so effective that “almost all deaths, especially in adults, from COVID-19 are, at this stage, completely preventable “.

New cases are propelled by the relaxation of pandemic prevention measures, low vaccination rates as well as the Delta variant of COVID-19. The variant appears to be spreading faster than the strain of coronavirus that initially triggered the pandemic.

“It’s worse this time because we’ve seen it before,” said Amelia Montgomery, a nurse at Cox Medical Center South in Springfield, Missouri. Atlantic. “Coming back to the COVID ICU was demoralizing. “

Missouri is one of many states with their worst increase in coronavirus cases since Democratic President Joe Biden took office on Jan.20, 2021. Montgomery Hospital is so crowded with new COVID-19 patients that new ones hospital beds only open when someone dies. New beds are opening every day.

Terrence Coulter, Cox’s ICU medical director, said Atlantic that he feels in conflict with coronavirus patients who could have avoided infection by being vaccinated.

“You’re just angry,” Coulter said, “and you feel guilty for getting angry because they’re sick and dying.”

News week contacted the CDC for comment.