"Don't be like me, get vaccinated".
Marco Marchesin, no vax hospitalized in Piacenza for Covid, says it, breathing hard, in a shock video released on social media.
"I have very little strength - he spells out slowly -. I didn't think I'd get here. I don't have the vaccine. Many of those present here don't have it. He recently left us a 41-year-old girl who died of Covid".
And again: "I was wrong, get vaccinated. Don't get killed by the disease. Get vaccinated, it's no joke, you die of this. This disease burns your lungs. Get vaccinated, don't be like me, I've been waiting for, it's hell".
The video was also shared by the hospital's head of intensive respiratory care (Utir), Franco Cosimo, commenting with a "It's never too late".
Currently the six beds of the Utir of Piacenza are occupied by "no vax" and all breathe thanks to mechanical ventilation with the helmet. From tomorrow, the part dedicated to non-Covid will also be converted, for a total of 15 beds, to cope with the expected peak in hospitalizations. In the ward "there is a lot of anger", says Professor Cosimo.
"Most of the no vaxes like the 50-year-old whose video I posted regret, cry. But there are also some who after we send them back home, healed, not only do not say 'thank you' but continue to deny it. evidence - he says -. One particularly irritated us: an inpatient in a social video kept saying 'who knows what they are doing to me, Covid does not exist.' In many years of work I have never seen my colleagues so indignant. are more words ".
"This wave - he continues - we would not have wanted to expect it because Piacenza had already been deeply affected. The proximity of Codogno has cost us a lot. We too were 'the' red zone, albeit not officially", he underlines. The unvaccinated patients are all “no vax” aged 50 years. Vaccinated patients, on the other hand, are predominantly over 75, awaiting a third dose. Which is "fundamental", emphasizes the primary.
"In Piacenza every family has a mourning at home for Covid. That there are no vax in these parts, it is not explainable, it is not acceptable, it is not tolerable. This is the anger: we remove the beds for those in need, respiratory patients not even serious Covid, to give them to those who got sick because they didn't want to get vaccinated - he concludes -. Having 10% of unvaccinated people in this province hurts. The Covid lesson has been completely forgotten ".
(Unioneonline / D)