Posted on 01/17/2022 7:39:49 PM PST by RummyChick
ESPN host Stephen A. Smith says he rang in the New Year hospitalized with COVID - and that doctors told him he would died if he hadn't been vaccinated.
He shared details about his serious bout with the virus Monday after returning to the air on the network's First Take, saying: 'It almost took me out.'
The 54-year-old began the episode by revealing he feared he might die after he was hospitalized with a 103-degree fever and double pneumonia on January 1.
'I didn't know if I was going to make it,' Smith said. 'They told me, had I not been vaccinated, I wouldn't be here. That's how bad I was.'
The hit show is filmed in Bristol, Connecticut, and Smith lives in New Jersey. Both states were hammered around the time of his diagnosis by a surge in cases driven by the highly-contagious Omicron-variant.
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How old? How would you know about their co-morbidities?
A CLOSE friend. That’s how I know about co-morbidities.
How old?
ROTFLMHaventCaredAboutTheNFLInDecadesAO!
80
Healthy enough to laugh his ass off at the Cowboys the other day...
Anything above 65 IS a co-morbidity.
Where I come from people would say that Stephen A. was vaccinated with a phonograph needle because he never shuts his trap.
Same here. Every person I know who has been seriously ill has been vaxxed. No one I know who hasn’t been vaxxed has been ill.
If he was vaxxed he should have been immune. 🙄
This kind of claim is complete BS..
The overwhelming majority of folks who get Covid, “vaccinated” or not survive... These foolish claims, I only survived because of the vaccine are not provable, they are nonsense. Just more PR and propaganda.
Yes, if you are vaccinated your risk of death from Covid is lower, but you, nor any doctor can tell you that if you didn’t have this vaccine you would have been one of the cases who perished or not.
In fact the best way to end up with a great outcome is actually to get Monoclonal antibodies... their rates of survival if received in 5-10 days of symptoms are the best vaccinated or not.
This guys claims are just conjecture, that the vaccine saved him, are just that... Conjecture.
May I ask your age?
They meant you wouldn't be in the hospital, dummy.
Thank you.
< 65
Liberals always have to change the meanings of things, change the rules, and guidelines when the previous ones they made up don’t work for them. Democrats in Congress do it all the time. And we all know how they incrementally take our rights away, and Republicans have allowed them to do it for years.
Wait a minute...he wasn’t hospitalized until he developed pneumonia in both lungs?!
Wanna bet he wasn’t treated until he was hospitalized with pneumonia in both lungs...
If true, it’ll wasn’t the coof that almost killed you, Smith.
It was MALPRACTICE.
Clap for carers!
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