‘Get The Vaccine’: 49-Year-Old COVID Survivor Speaks Out After 13 Days In Hospital

MIRAMAR (CBSMiami) – A 49-year-old pistillate who survived a fierce conflict with the coronavirus portion hospitalized is speaking out, saying she regrets her archetypal reluctance to get vaccinated and could person mislaid her life.

Her communicative besides prompts a plea from Dr. Todra Anderson-Rhodes, the main aesculapian serviceman for Memorial Hospital Miramar.

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“Please see getting vaccinated. We implore you to bash so. We telephone it the surge of the unvaccinated. Across our wellness attraction system, much than 98 per cent of our caller COVID patients are unvaccinated. We implore you to get the close accusation and we promote radical to speech to their wellness attraction providers astir the subject of being vaccinated. We cognize present it’s precise harmless and the broadside effects are precise minimal,” said Dr. Anderson-Rhodes.

Kayasa Cobb, the diligent who is present astatine home, spoke with CBS4’s Peter D’Oench.

“I was concerned. I did a batch of praying and said acknowledgment to God we are here. That’s what I said and I americium highly grateful to the attraction the doctors utilized present astatine Memorial Hospital Miramar,” said Cobb. “I could person ended up connected a ventilator oregon dormant truthful my connection is to get vaccinated.”

Cobb said she spent 13 days successful the infirmary aft going determination connected June 27 with pains successful her back, broadside and chest. She was told she had the coronavirus and did not permission the infirmary until July 9th.

Cobb recovered aft a infirmary spokeswoman says she was treated with humor thinners, humor and robust infusions, monoclonal antibodies and remdisivir. She had a humor clot successful her lung that was exacerbated by COVID.

Cobb said she regrets her archetypal reluctance to get vaccinated and said she has underlying conditions and did not get vaccinated.

“I was acrophobic astir broadside effects,” she said. “I wanted to spot however it played retired earlier I got the vaccine. I was acrophobic astir humor clots and ironically I was acrophobic astir humor clots yet I ended up with humor clots and COVID.”

She disquieted she would not survive.

She said, “I had a 50-50 accidental due to the fact that I had humor clots arsenic good arsenic COVID and I had anemia and needed humor thinners with anemia and that was not good. All that mixed successful with needing oxygen and I was precise anemic with COVID and that was not a bully thing.”

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According to Dr. Anderson-Rhodes, “We cognize that sometimes patients with COVID tin person definite coagulations oregon humor disorders and for immoderate it tin marque the humor thinner oregon clot and question to different parts of the assemblage similar the lungs and tin origin excess bleeding.”

Cobb was besides disquieted astir her 69-year-old parent and her husband, who were some unvaccinated.

“My hubby wasn’t doing well,” she said. “I was acrophobic astir him. He has precocious humor unit and underlying conditions. He was successful the infirmary 8 to 10 days and had been receiving attraction and was not doing well. He had breathing complications and everything.”

They some recovered.

“My connection is for radical to spell and not beryllium fearful and get the vaccine,” she said, “just truthful they don’t person to spell done what I went done and my family. I person to hold 90 days to get vaccinated for aesculapian reasons but we volition and my girl has been vaccinated with 1 changeable truthful acold and she volition get the 2nd 1 and a batch of my household members volition arsenic well.”

“Get the vaccine,” she said. “It tin prevention your beingness and prevention you the heartache due to the fact that adjacent if you get it (the coronavirus) you won’t get it arsenic bad.”

Dr. Anderson-Rhodes has a peculiar transportation to Cobb.

Eighteen years ago, she was the doc who delivered Cobb’s daughter.

Dr. Anderson-Rhodes besides had different plea that she said could prevention lives.

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“We are asking everyone to heed the CDC guidelines for societal distancing and we are asking that they besides lavation their hands often with soap and h2o oregon manus sanitizer,” she said. “We besides privation to marque definite that radical deterioration masks peculiarly erstwhile they are successful enclosed spaces with different people. These are the 3 important steps that we are not changing and the steps needed to assistance us.”