Man who declined COVID-19 vaccine speaks out after undergoing double lung transplant

ABC News, via MSN ^ | 17 June 2021 | ABC News

[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."

[Bulwyf]

There’s Chinese money all over, it would take a lifetime to try to follow it all.

[phoneman08]

We could start with the Bidens. Start right at the top LOL.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

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[Bulwyf]

Haha, I’d love to talk friendly with them, Trudeau as well.

We’ve been sold out, that much is clear.

[Jane Long]

And, you could not just ‘walk up’ for any ‘left over shots’.....you had to register, and wait for your phone call/appointment time, during the designated group dates.

[Bigg Red]

::funny how this story emerges immediately after this woman goes on Tucker!::

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Yes, such a coincidence, huh?

I saw that poor woman’s appearance on TC. So sad.

[phoneman08]

Crystal clear.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Maurice?

[MinorityRepublican]

Perhaps someone shot in the head in Chicago.

Organ donor.

[twyn1]

I personally know a previously healthy (except for bad knees) man in his early 60’s who had a mild case of Covid in the Fall. Had some loss of taste & smell, a few bad days but the cough lingered for quite a while.

He decided to get the vaccine in February. Had a horrible reaction after the 2nd shot, sicker than he was when he had Covid. Is now what is called a “long-hauler”. Has been hospitalized twice, placed on breathing assistance (not a ventilator, some sort of forced air mask and then nasal oxygen and several daily nebulizer treatments), also placed on very strong steroids and several other meds.

To this day, he can barely walk around the house or climb stairs, short of breath all the time, Still on steroids and nebulizers, he’s gained weight and is basically sitting in a recliner all day.

There are plenty of these stories on both sides of this - but I am not ready to “get the jab” at this time.

[mrmeyer]

Yep. Fear porn

[phoneman08]

Or just tell them it’s racist to only vaccinate old white people. He’d have been at the front of the line.

[bagster]

You get off on this. I’ve “seen” you on enough threads to know your deal. You are just the opposite side of the coin as the people “excited” about vaccine deaths/illnesses.

Interesting point, other than those of us on the 'opposite side of the coin' aren't 'excited' about vaccine deaths/illnesses. Unless you count 'pissed off' about them.

If this Bobo shill 'cared' about this dude, other than as a propaganda tool, he'd 'care' about the thousands of dead people who took the vax. Where are his threads about THOSE people?

Instead, he uses them too, as statistics and numbers in his effort to get everyone to take the poison.

This fake 'caring' is more despicable than his dry, statistical based rhetoric, if you ask me.

These professional vax shills are completely disgusting.

[qaz123]

Thanks.

As usual I remember the new admin going after President Trump and the vaccines, saying he didn’t have a plan to get them out there. President Trump and the few supporters he had countered saying that the vaccines were delivered and it was up to the Governors and states to figure out who to get them to. Ergo, how they created categories for who would get them and when.

Our media is so fu*king gross.

[1FreeAmerican]

Strange that is not mentioned.

Which means Yes. Already severely compromised.

[bagster]

Ignore the idiot Luddites around here. Thank you for posting the article. Hopefully, other people will read and comprehend and not unnecessarily suffer.

Translation: Hopefully people are big enough suckers to fall for this vax salesman's pitch.

probably due to listening to crackpot theories like FR is lousy with nowadays.

You mean crackpot theories like 'the vax is safe and effective'? Those crackpot theories?

Yea, you're probly right.

signed,

An idiot luddite

[bagster]

Chances are the effects of Covid would have been significantly diminished if he had had the vaccine. Smoker or not.

Chances are?

And you know this how? Cause Fauci told you?

[KevinB]

I have little sympathy for those who at risk due to their own bad lifestyle choices. I also have little interest in altering my lifestyle to protect such people.

[zeestephen]

Re: "after having been put on double ventilators to blow out his lungs"

Exactly.

I wonder what percentage of the people with COVID were/are experiencing impaired breathing for the first time in their lives - and then they panicked?

Do something! Help me!

Pure speculation on my part, but I think tens of thousands of Americans were MASSIVELY over-treated because of breathing-related panic.

[greeneyes]

Sounds like the standard treatment - Go home and don’t come back till you are really sick and can’t breathe (then we’ll put you on a ventilator which doesn’t really treat the inflammation):

“Don’t come back until your lips are blue” (Robert Malone, Steve Kirsch, Bret Weinstein)
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