{"id":4162,"date":"2021-07-21T10:40:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T16:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2021-07-21T11:03:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T17:03:31","slug":"im-sorry-but-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=4162","title":{"rendered":"‘I\u2019m sorry, but it\u2019s too late’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alabama doctor on treating unvaccinated, dying COVID patients<\/strong><\/p>\n

…\u201cI\u2019m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,\u201d wrote Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. \u201cOne of the last things they do before they\u2019re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I\u2019m sorry, but it\u2019s too late.\u201d<\/p>\n

…\u201c[The families] cry. And they tell me they didn\u2019t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain skin color they wouldn\u2019t get as sick. They thought it was \u2018just the flu\u2019. But they were wrong. And they wish they could go back. But they can\u2019t. So they thank me and they go get the vaccine. And I go back to my office, write their death note, and say a small prayer that this loss will save more lives.\u201d…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing.<\/a> I don’t know if I could summon the patience and empathy this doctor has for her dying patients and their families, but I certainly do feel that empathy for the heathcare workers now being forced back into the COVID wards because these people refused a free, life-saving vaccine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alabama doctor on treating unvaccinated, dying COVID patients …\u201cI\u2019m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,\u201d wrote Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham, in an emotional Facebook post Sunday. \u201cOne of the last things they do before they\u2019re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I hold their hand and tell them that I\u2019m sorry, but it\u2019s too late.\u201d …\u201c[The families] cry. And they tell me they didn\u2019t know. They thought it was a hoax. They thought it was political. They thought because they had a certain blood type or a certain …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,35,174],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-republicans","category-trump","tag-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-158","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4166,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}