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 ...
Please tell us where the article says he was NOT healthy. Thanks.
propaganda
Yep.
FTA....
“It was quick, it was within three weeks, the lungs were already shot,” said Garza, who works in the oil and gas industry. “They’re telling you your lungs are failing, so you don’t know if you’re going to go to bed tonight and wake up tomorrow,” he said.
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WTFlip? Guy waited THREE weeks? Or, was he sent home, without any proven treatments, to wait it out until his lungs were shot?
“ Please tell us where the article says he was NOT healthy. Thanks.”
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Dr. Howard Huang is the medical director of lung transplantation at Houston Methodist and is one of the doctors who treated Garza. Dr Huang, as a treating physician, is certainly in a position to be knowledgeable of Mr Garza’s medical history. He apparently thinks Mr Garza was eligible to receive the vaccination before he contracted COVID-19 at the end of January. Here is an extract from the article.
“…Houston Methodist continues to see patients with severe illness from COVID-19, many of whom have not been vaccinated, Huang said. It’s difficult to say for sure, but Huang believes that had Garza gotten the vaccine when he was able to, “it’s likely that we would have never gotten to this point.”
“The data that’s now coming out suggests that the vaccines are very good at preventing severe illness,” he said….”
By the way, you are to be commended for DEBUNKING the many claims being made in this thread that in January people had to be 65 or older to receive the vaccine. Those DEBUNKED claims were made by people IGNORANT of the facts and too lazy to search for facts as you did. Props to you as a TRUTH SEEKER.
If he’s not healthy, then the article is hype. Unhealthy people are at major risk for any common disease, including influenza and pneumonia.
“If he’s not healthy, then the article is hype. Unhealthy people are at major risk for any common disease, including influenza and pneumonia.”
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Yep, and that is why Texas opened up access to COVID-19 vaccination on December 29, 2020.
Ok... unhealthy people are at risk from Covid, healthy & unhealthy people are at risk from the vaccine.
I’m healthy, and I’ve already had Covid and have real, natural anti-bodies, not ‘spike protein’ pathogens caused by an RNA altering ‘vaccine’ forcing my body to produce them.
“I’m healthy, and I’ve already had Covid and have real, natural anti-bodies, not ‘spike protein’ pathogens caused by an RNA altering ‘vaccine’ forcing my body to produce them.”
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Good for you. I’m glad you are healthy and have a good immune system.
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