Father who dies of COVID says he should have been vaccinated

Michael Freedy tested positive after short family vacation

A Nevada man and father of five recently died of COVID, telling his fiance, “I should have been vaccinated,” in a text before he died.

Jessica DuPreez said her fiance, Michael Freedy, wanted to wait until the vaccine was available for a year before entering to receive it. Sadly, he ended up contracting the virus after a short family vacation and, after fighting in an intensive care unit for days, died of complications from the virus. “He was only 39 years old; our babies don’t have a father anymore, ”Jessica DuPreez told the Las Vegas resort. KVVU. “You can’t say, ‘I’m young and that won’t affect me. Because it will.

DuPreez said the couple plan to get it but want to wait until they see possible side effects first. “We wanted to wait just a year after release to see what effects people were having, but there was never any intention of not getting it,” DuPreez said.

After vacationing in San Diego with their five children, ages 1 to 17, DuPreez said Freedy was feeling sick, assuming it was from a bad sunburn he got on the trip. . He was admitted to the emergency room, where he tested positive for COVID-19.

DuPreez wrote on a GoFundMe page that after trying to fight off the virus at home, things got worse and they returned to the emergency room where Freedy was discovered to have pneumonia in both his lungs. Fast forward to several days of intensive care and doctors told DuPreez he needed to be intubated and sedated.

“I cried and told him to fight, he said he was,” she said of their last phone call. “He told me he loved me and I told him I loved him so much and please, please fight and come home with me. This was the last time I was able to hear his voice or communicate with him. I went to the ICU that night to see him, after receiving one of the worst phone calls ever. The nurse told me to contact the next of kin and take all their things home.

Freedy passed away shortly after. “The love of my life, my rock, my everything. The father of my babies is no longer with us, ”DuPreez wrote. “I do not know what to do.”

Since Freedy’s death, DuPreez says she’s been vaccinated, as has her oldest child. Now she tells everyone she knows to give up what they’re doing and go get the shot. More than 610,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States since the start of the pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“Anyone can have a bad reaction to any vaccine throughout history, but I would react badly to the vaccine rather than having to bury my husband,” she said. CNN.