Before dying from Covid, a tiktoker who did not want to be vaccinated begged his followers not to repeat his mistake | the Chronicle

“I shouldn’t have expected“. In the last video posted on his account TIC Tac, Megan Alexandra Blankenbiller she begged her supporters not to make the same mistake as she did, to wait too long to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, a mistake that ultimately cost him his life.

Blankenbiller, or @atasteofalex at TIC Tac, died of the coronavirus last month after documenting his journey with the virus through a series of short videos. She first announced that she contracted the virus on August 13 with a video of her in the hospital. In legend, he urged others: “DO NOT WAIT TO VACCINE YOURSELF! Go now!“Over the weeks, he posted three more videos repeating the recommendation.

In one of the clips, he dispelled the misconception that those who are vaccinated cannot get Covid and explained that the injection helps your body resist the virus if you get it. In the next, he said he was afraid to get the vaccine. He also said that since he was in the hospital he listened “the moans and cries of the people who have suffered“, the pain of those who had probably lost their loved ones.

In his latest video, filmed from his hospital bed like everyone else, he admitted it was getting harder to speak, but shared his own story: He wasn’t against vaccines, but he took the time to investigate and she wanted to be vaccinated at the hospital along with her family, a decision she said she regretted.

“I think this was a mistake. I shouldn’t have expected“, noted. “If you are 70% sure you want the vaccine, do it. Don’t wait. Go get it because I hope if you get it, won’t end up in the hospital like me, Okay?“

Blankenbiller died nine days after his last August 15 video, reported CNN. He was 31 years old. As reported by WebMD, before her death, the woman had made an appointment to be vaccinated with her mother and sisters, but succumbed to the disease before she could receive the vaccine.

In the United States, about 54% of the population has received both doses of the coronavirus vaccine, including nearly two-thirds of the adult population, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Since the start of the pandemic, more than 649,000 people have died from Covid in the country.