"I just don't want anyone else to go through this": The family of one of the men speaks out to encourage people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.The families of two unvaccinated men who underwent major lung surgery after they contracted the coronavirus are encouraging others to get the shots and re-evaluating their own vaccine hesitancy.underwent a double lung transplant after months in the hospital battling the virus.
After he attended the concert, Bargatze got sick and was taken to a hospital in Florida. As his situation became dire, the family had him transferred to Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta so he could be placed on an ECMO machine. The device pumps and oxygenates a person's blood outside the body, giving the lungs and the heart a chance to rest.
Over the past several months, her son, Marcus Hartford, has undergone three operations, one of them to remove part of his right lung, Janatowski said in a phone interview Thursday. After having spent 81 days on an ECMO machine, he was finally removed from it on Tuesday.
HttpStatus402 If they wont take a vaccine you're really going to hate anti- rejection meds
MalcolmNance Where dp all these LUNGS suddenly appear from? Gunshot victims?
MalcolmNance So basically their position was, 'I'll ignore it until it directly affects me.' Sorry, they're selfish.
MalcolmNance How does ths happen? Transplant patients wait 4months & yrs depending on the organs needed but I have read of at least three lung transplants in the past week?They needed them obviously but wht happened 2the list? Healthcare disparities are a serious matter🏥 UniversalCareNeeded
The real tragedy is someone was waiting for those lungs and because h didn’t get vaxxed those waiting, sometimes for years, will continue to wait.
ResistMonsters They did it to themselves. It’s no different than those who ruin their lungs with smoking. Our bodies are affected by everything we do to them so it’s about focusing on as much healthiness as possible!
Lmao
Why are we wasting vast and precious medical resources on such foolish people?
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Get vaccinated people! It’s so easy. Save yourselves and others and have consideration for the doctors and nurses who are once again being stressed to the max.
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if that's freedom....I don't want it
I'm taking my organ donor designation off my drivers license.
donwinslow This you
Look at what two states they live in. Absolutely, ridiculous that it is up for debate to get the vaccine.
It sounds like the second one wasn't eligible to get the vaccine when he got covid.
How did the doctors determine who received the lung transplant? We should be also hearing from the families still on the transplant list.
I know it’s not possible but they should have been denied service! Why are they running to hospitals if the virus is a “hoax”! They should stay their as home and figure it out.
This is sad but it’s important. I especially don’t understand why anyone who smokes (marijuana or tobacco) would avoid the vaccine as it attacks the lungs first.
These people willfully did the stupid thing yet 2 people who didn't are still waiting on that transplant. Not fair
GovHowardDean Obviously, because only unvaccinated people are getting real sick and dying, you will be hearing this story over and over. Say hello to Mr. Darwin.
Life insurance companies should deny the claims for unvaccinated customers. They don’t cover other life risking activities, how’s this different?
Make sure to let them know that lungs don’t grow on trees and there were people who DIDN’T have a vaccine-preventable illness that will now not have lungs available to them. Selfishness ≠ freedom.
hankschulman 100% rhetoric fear mongering.
RE-EVALUATING “Re-evaluating their own vaccine hesitancy”? To hell with these people.
Who is paying for Blake's medical care. Tab would've likely run into 7 figures. Hope Cheryl is wealthy or had great medical insurance.
So sad that people ( or someone close to them) actually have to experience this personally before they acknowledge it.
Anyone who chooses not to get the vaccine should be ineligible for transplants. And employment and travel.
Irony: they would have to take immunosuppressants the rest of their lives. So they can get Covid again — and any other infectious disease. Negligent patients are high risk patients.
soledadobrien Idiots refuse vaccine to help stop spread of a deadly disease & end up w/said disease, because reasons. There, I fixed it for you. I have no pity for morons that reject facts. They chose this fate & shouldn't be eligible for transplants, bypassing others on the list. COVIDIOTS
Nope they don’t deserve it!! How about saving the lungs for people who need them from no fault of their own. Not COVID IDIOTS who refuse to take the vaccine. Screw them imo.
donwinslow
How is it fair that he got moved to the top of the transplant list, taking lungs from someone else who didn’t choose to risk getting a deadly disease. Just not fair.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Unfortunately, MAGAts won't buy it. They'll still claim it's all a hoax and that this was a set-up. 🤷🏽♂️
Very important tweet, of course!! 🙏
Why are we wasting resources on them?
This whole thing is unreal considering almost every adult in the USA is alive & healthy now bc they got vaccinated as a child.
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How many people who have been on the lung transplant list for months were jumped over to give people who chose not to get vaccinated new lungs? Over 600,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID. What are the criteria?
those two men are stealing the lungs that could go to someone more deserving
It's awful. But it's always the eager drunk driver that crashes and becomes the spokesperson but what would have been better was caring before that. And of the people hit? 'don't want anyone else to'. Indeed, did they consider who they spread it to? Awful, the tragedy is us.
And yet those on the transplant list for months and years continue to wait. 😪
FFS
Must've had good insurance. If it had been most of us, they'd have let us die.
maggieNYT So the antivaxxers are being rewarded with lung transplants now?! Fuck that shit. They should go to the back of the line.
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Naw. Let it roll on.
do you know how much a lung transplantation costs? aside of endangering other people, these morons also cost a lot of money. best lesson? let them pay for their healthcare.
Reevaluating that’s rich
Why were they given the lung transplants? They should have been taken out to the parking lot to die.
These people are bumping people down on the lung transplant list. Lungs are exceedingly rare. UNOSNews — DO NOT prioritize. The choice not to get vaccinated should have consequences. And people waiting for lungs for reasons other than vaccine refusal should not suffer them.
People saying they have a strong immune system don't understand just how vulnerable the human body is. They don't know what they say.
Hope it will make a difference with more being vaccinated
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WHCOS Pt 2: “Re-evaluate”. 😐 What’s it gonna take to get this self-responsibility train up to speed? To vaccinate or not is everyone’s choice, as best they can. Then, respect yourself and others: be self-responsible. The “Prodigal Son”-thing is wearing thin.
Kathlee97811481 Are we really that dumb that we can’t imagine why we need to be vaccinated. We need to lose our lungs or die first. Come on already.
What a waste of those transplants. They should have gone to those who didn't bring it on themselves like these men did.
How does someone jump to the head of the line with a lung transparent? Not just one….but TWO? And aren’t there over 600,000 dead people who could’ve had a lung transplant? [exaggerating]
Lung transplant cost $900,000 per patient. Taxpayers underwrite this.
maggieNYT Astonishing that one of the mothers is just “reconsidering” getting the vaccine. What more would it take for her?
I’m sorry… are we supposed to feel sorry? Not feeling very empathetic, and I’m generally a very empathetic person. NOW they want the world to know that everyone should be vaccinated. I’ve completely lost patience with these antivaxers.
This makes me angry.. why should they receive or Ron the donor list
Zero sympathy for idiots who refuse vaccination and then, surprise surprise, get Covid. Same with smokers who get lung cancer. Rock on Darwin!
Gemini21BLM Sadly this won’t do any good. The right is entrenched in their effort to own the libs… even if it costs lives.
At this point, you could walk the anti vaccers through a hospital full of dead and dying patients and they would walk out going “ it’s not so bad”.
maggieNYT anyone who refuses to get the vaccine should be REQUIRED to help out at a hospital covid ward for those that did not get the vaccine, for just one day...
This should be on FoxNews
donwinslow Ok I get the age group, I get that it may not have been available, but did they wear a mask, social distance, wash their hands as a precaution. No one knows that but them. Wearing the mask was helping but noooo it’s against their right. Blah blah. Country got to relaxed to quick
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“Reconsidering”. JFC. What does it take to get through to these people?
maggieNYT Why is this even a story? GET THE FUCKING VACCINE
Media agendas aimed at shaming the unvaccinated. If vaccines work, why do you care? Why not talk about the millions of us who arent vaccinated and feel fine? No agenda there. Im still not getting vaccinated.
WHCOS Hmmmmm. I guess that’s good news. Better news would be speaking out before they get Covid.
Ah, sweet sweet karma…
This is why covid deaths as a metric doesn't tell the whole story. There are too many reduced quality of life consequences but those don't get the same attention.
Makes me so mad, they should have never received these transplants, they don’t deserve this help 😡
Maybe just let natural selection do its thing.
Fools learn by experience
There are people who through no fault OF THEIR OWN needs organs and these 2 misfits get them
They had preexisting conditions , the vaccine would have put them in the same situation or maybe worse. The experimental injection isn’t for everybody. Make it available and mind your own business.
Why are they receiving treatment?
Good on them for speaking out, knowing the flak they'll get from too many people.
Doctors, I love you guys, but you have to stop saving morons. Think of yourselves as the gene police...get those anti-vaxxer motherfuckers out out of the pool.
That transplant could have saved someone who weren't waste of space like the ones who received it. If they are not vaccinated they shouldn't be admitted to the hospital.
Unfortunately this probably won't change the minds of a lot of the anti-vaxxers.
But I dare they show post-vaccinated cases who are hospitalized, because they do exist.
What were the other problems these people had?
CmiloseMilose May those two lung recipients learn a big fat massive lesson.
CmiloseMilose It's difficult to continue to feel compassion for antivaxxers. CAN stupid be fixed? Can it happen? Dear Sweet Jesus! I'd rather those lungs go to a person who needs one for a non-covid reason.
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