Unvaccinated man hospitalized with COVID-19 still refuses to be vaccinated

An unvaccinated man who was hospitalized in Baton Rouge, Louisiana after contracting COVID-19 and developing severe pneumonia said he still will not receive the vaccine.

“Before you got sick, if you had had the chance to get the vaccine and avoid it, would you have taken the vaccine? CBS News’ David Begnaud asked Scott Roe on his hospital bed at Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center in an interview this week.

“No,” replied Roe, a Republican.

“So, would you have been through this? Asked Bégnaud.

“I would have been there. Yes sir. Don’t stick it down my throat. This is what local, state and federal government is trying to do, ”Roe replied.

“What are they pushing, science?” asked Bégnaud.

“No, they put forward the fact that this is their agenda. Their goal is to get you vaccinated, ”Roe said, saying there were“ too many problems ”with the injections. Millions of Americans have received the vaccines, which have been shown to be remarkably effective in preventing serious illnesses and infections.

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In the same segment, pharmaceutical researcher Paula Johnson regretted delaying obtaining the vaccine.

She ended up in the hospital.

“I honestly think to God that I walked my last day on this earth. I couldn’t breathe. All of a sudden my lungs were broken, ”Johnson told Begnaud.

“I have no comorbidities, nothing, I have never had a lung problem. Don’t smoke, nothing, ”Johnson explained. “And it took my lungs and just… I don’t even know how to explain it.” It’s like trying to inspire and hit a wall in a second.

His warning came as the highly transmissible delta variant continues to spread across the country. It echoes those issued this week by other unvaccinated people (who now account for 99.5% of U.S. deaths from COVID-19) who have been hospitalized for the disease and are now urging others to get vaccinated.

William Hughes of Arkansas told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday that he wished he had the jab.

“I mean, the vaccine may not have kept me from contracting COVID, but it may have significantly lessened the pain and suffering I had to go through to get to where I am now. “, did he declare.

Donald McAvoy, an unvaccinated 33-year-old gymnasium manager from Jacksonville, Fla., Said he was initially “skeptical” about the shooting.

“I was like, ‘Hey, don’t get it, I don’t need it. I’m healthy. I’m young. I’m fine. I’m fine,” McAvoy told Action News Jax. “S ‘there is one thing I could tell the public that everyone is getting vaccinated now. “