'I just don't want anyone else to go through this': The family of one of the men speaks out to encourage people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
"I just don't want anyone else to go through this": The family of one of the men speaks out to encourage people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.The families of two unvaccinated men who underwent major lung surgery after they contracted the coronavirus are encouraging others to get the shots and re-evaluating their own vaccine hesitancy.underwent a double lung transplant after months in the hospital battling the virus.
After he attended the concert, Bargatze got sick and was taken to a hospital in Florida. As his situation became dire, the family had him transferred to Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta so he could be placed on an ECMO machine. The device pumps and oxygenates a person's blood outside the body, giving the lungs and the heart a chance to rest.
Over the past several months, her son, Marcus Hartford, has undergone three operations, one of them to remove part of his right lung, Janatowski said in a phone interview Thursday. After having spent 81 days on an ECMO machine, he was finally removed from it on Tuesday.
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