Almost all of the patients in ICUs at the hospital have not yet received a shot.
The unnamed nurse, who works at the Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida, said that patients are desperate to be vaccinated.Almost all of the patients in ICUs at the hospital have not yet received a shot, CNN reported.
The nurse often has to remind patients that the right time to get vaccinated is before getting sick, she said.Patients in intensive care units with COVID-19 at a Florida hospital are "begging" to be vaccinated, a nurse toldThe unnamed nurse, who works at the Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida, said that patients, the overwhelming majority of whom are unvaccinated, are "at a loss" for what they can do to stay alive.
"Every single day... you're getting ready to intubate the patient in ICU, which means putting them on a ventilator, and they say, 'If I get the vaccine now, can I not go on the ventilator?'" the nurse told CNN's Randi Kaye. She said that she has to repeatedly point out that the right time to get a COVID-19 vaccine is before they get sick.
"They're desperate because they're gasping for air, they can't breathe, they're scared, they feel like they're going to pass away," the nurse continued. "They're just asking for whatever they can do to possibly keep them from being put on a ventilator because once a patient gets on a ventilator, it's really hard to wean them off."Three patients told Randi Kaye that they would get vaccinated if they survive their spell in the ICU, CNN reported.
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