and he went to the top of the waiting list???
Posted on 06/17/2021 2:57:15 PM PDT by BeauBo
Joshua Garza had a chance to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in January but he passed it up, thinking he didn't really need it.
Now, the 43-year-old Texan is hoping to inspire others to get the shot after he became so ill following his COVID-19 diagnosis that he needed a rare double lung transplant to survive.
"COVID ended up attacking my lungs," Garza, of Sugarland, told ABC News.
After testing positive for COVID-19 in late January, Garza's health deteriorated rapidly. On Feb. 2, when he ended up falling while trying to walk, his wife called for an ambulance to take him to the hospital. He was ultimately transferred to Houston Methodist, where he was put on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine to pump and oxygenate his blood for him.
"It was quick, it was within three weeks, the lungs were already shot," said Garza, who works in the oil and gas industry.
Garza was put on the lung transplant list, and on April 13, successfully underwent surgery. He spent several more weeks recovering and rehabilitating to regain his strength after two months on life support before being released from the hospital on May 27...
"It's much easier to get the vaccine than to go through something like this," Huang said of Garza's case. "He's extremely lucky. Most people in this situation don't make it to the transplant. You can't count on this outcome."
For Garza, he's sharing his story in hopes of helping prevent others from experiencing what we went through.
"If I knew what I know now," he said, "I would have definitely went through with the vaccination."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Yep
“””Joshua Garza had a chance to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in January but he passed it up, thinking he didn’t really need it. Now, the 43-year-old Texan”””
This story does not pass the smell test. At age 43 he would not have been able to get the vaxx in January.
At that time only people who worked in healthcare could get the vaxx if they were under the age of 65.
This dude worked in the oil industry.
I call a big BS FearPorn story here!!!!!!
In the “oil and gas industry” so it’s a hit on fossil fuels
Stingray51 wrote:
“He is 43 and says he had the opportunity to get the vaccine in January. Was that early for a healthy 43 year-old? I think so.”
Yep, very early; at that time in Texas, the shots were for 65 years and up.
Someone at work had asked me back then if I was gonna get it and I told them I wasn’t old enough (I had just turned 64, but didn’t tell them that).
In January, in Texas, the shots were only available to folks 65 and older.
the hysteria and conspiracy theories being floated about genocide and whatnot are what keep the people who would benefit from the vaccines from taking them.
If there is an eugenicist promoting the vaccine, one should pay attention.
thanks for posting the facts as to when folks could get the vaxx in texas
and he went to the top of the waiting list???
funny how this story emerges immediately after this woman goes on Tucker!
17 Daily Mail: ‘There’s no other explanation’: Utah mom blames COVID vaccines after her 17-year-old athlete son and her husband were BOTH hospitalized with rare blood clots after getting Pfizer and Moderna shots
by KEITH GRIFFITH
Romney says that her husband Preston was hospitalized ‘with over 100 blood clots in his lungs’ the weekend after her son was discharged from the hospital in May.
She has said that her husband had to have a quarter of his lungs removed to treat the clots. He has also since been released and is in stable condition...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9695451/Utah-mom-blames-COVID-vaccines-son-husband-hospitalized-blood-clots.html
Fair question.
Read lots of stories about places “using up” their vaccine quotas on anyone who came along if there were doses left over.
Know one person who got a shot that way last fall.
“The smallpox vaccine was a toxin. Would you have not taken it?”
We all know what smallpox does to an unvaccinated person. SARS-CoV-2? Not much, evidently, to people like me.
Step right up!
Get your Suicide Shot...
I wonder what condition his lungs were in before he got sick.
Underrated comment.
Quack Quack quoth the troll.
Because SCIENCE!™
*One*.
Sure establishes a national trend, doesn’t it.
So deaths from the jab are ANECDOTAL, but your anecdote is gold-plated.
(Pats troll on head.)
Overseas I was very good at extracting info from people who didn’t want to give it up, I would love to do that to a few people here who keep this up and find out who’s paying who and how much.
You seem to have just the skills needed to see who is paying Xi's little helpers. The longer the USA has to deal with this pandemic BS due to knuckleheads running from the doctor like three-year-olds not getting a lollipop with their shot, The CCP celebrates their successful bioweapon's longevity with of all things, my fellow conservatives help. Spit.
Just makes you wonder
Why are they pushing
This as Hard as they are?
Money,
Control,
Depopulation or
Something
Real Bad?
/$
See chart here: (h/t Jane Long)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3968734/posts?page=74#74
I live in Texas and can corroborate that the shots weren’t available in January for folks under 65 except frontline healthcare workers and nursing home residents.
In January I was 64, and neither a frontline healthcare worker nor a nursing home resident, and someone asked if I was gonna get the shot and I told them I wasn’t old enough.
biden, fauxi, and the cdc recommending lockdowns, cancellations of events, masks, and vaccines for our citizens to stop the spread of a “deadly virus” while biden opened our border, invited, welcomed, and continues to freely spread thousands of “disease carrying invaders” across our country during a “global pandemic” reeks of hypocrisy and proves we’re being lied to about the severity of this so called “deadly virus”...
Probably all the above.
It’s not necessarily true that everyone pushing it wants all those, but everyone pushing it wants at least one of those.
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