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An unvaccinated man who was hospitalised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after he contracted Covid-19 and developed severe pneumonia said he still won’t get the vaccine.
“Before you got sick, if you would have had a chance to get the vaccine and prevent this, would you have taken the vaccine?” CBS News’ David Begnaud asked Scott Roe on his hospital bed at Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center in an interview this week.
“No,” Roe, a Republican, responded.
“So, you’d have gone through this?” asked Begnaud.
“I’d have gone through this. Yes, sir. Don’t shove it down my throat. That’s what local, state, federal administration is trying to do,” Roe replied.
“What are they shoving, the science?” asked Begnaud.
“No, they’re shoving the fact that it’s their agenda. Their agenda is to get you vaccinated,” Roe said, claiming there were “too many issues” with the shots. Millions of Americans have received the shots, which have proven remarkably effective at preventing infection and severe illness.
Watch the interview here:
In the same segment, pharmaceutical researcher Paula Johnson expressed regret at putting off getting the vaccine.
She ended up in hospital.
“I honest to God thought I walked my last day on this earth. I could not breathe. I just, all of a sudden, my lungs just didn’t work,” Johnson told Begnaud.
“I have no comorbidities, nothing, never had a lung problem. Don’t smoke, nothing,” Johnson explained. “And it took my lungs and just … I don’t even know how to explain it. It’s like trying to breathe in and hitting a wall in like a second.”
Her warning came as the highly transmissible delta variant continues to spread across the country. It echoes those delivered this week by other unvaccinated people (who now make up 99.5% of American deaths from COVID-19) who were hospitalized with the disease and are now urging others to take the shot.
William Hughes, from Arkansas, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Thursday that he wished he’d had the jab.
“I mean, the vaccine may not have kept me from getting COVID, but it may have decreased greatly the pain and suffering I had to go through to get to the point where I am now,” he said.
Watch the video here:
William Hughes, who was hospitalized with Covid, shares his message for those opposing the vaccine.
“Go get the vaccine. If you don’t do it for yourself, do it for your family. Because I almost left my wife and my daughter here to fend for themselves because I didn’t go get one.” pic.twitter.com/wtTHqTXVPi— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) July 23, 2021
Donald McAvoy, an unvaccinated 33-year-old gym manager from Jacksonville, Florida, said he was initially “skeptical” about the shot.
“I was like, ‘Eh don’t get it, I don’t need it. I’m healthy. I’m young. I’m good. I’m OK,’” McAvoy told Action News Jax. “If there’s one thing I could say to the public and everyone out there is get vaccinated now.”
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Tonga’s Shirtless Flag Bearer Rocks Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony, With 1 Difference
Tonga’s flag bearer Pita Taufatofua cemented his status as a firm fan favorite at the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony on Friday when he once again walked into the stadium shirtless and covered in oil.
Taufatofua, who is competing in the Taekwondo event, did the same at the Rio summer games in 2016 and at the winter games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, two years later.
This time around, though, there was one difference.
Taufatofua wore a mask, as did all athletes involved in the ceremony:
This is a Tonga Olympics appreciation tweet for no reason in particular
📷: Getty Images pic.twitter.com/PgGmjDEaCw
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) July 23, 2021
“The Usain Bolt of flag bearers”, says Bruce McAvaney 😅
Pita Taufatofua has a compelling story:
– Rio Olympian in 2016
– PyeongChang Winter Games in 2018
– Engineer by trade
– UNICEF ambassadorAnd now he’s ready to compete in taekwondo for Tonga in Tokyo #OpeningCeremonypic.twitter.com/K5GM6JKpSM
— 7Olympics (@7olympics) July 23, 2021
Italy Turns Heads At Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony With ‘Interesting’ Outfits
Twitter users pounced on the Italian team’s “interesting” outfits at the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony on Friday:
“With all the fashion designers in Italy you’d think their Olympics outfit will come harder than this,” one person cracked.
“Italy has come out swimming for worst outfit so far,” another said.
Interesting outfit by #Italy. #Olympics#Olympics2021pic.twitter.com/VzeCowzIMG
— Fion Li (@fion_li) July 23, 2021
Yikes the Italy outfits look like upside down pacmen?? #OpeningCeremony
— Kelly Lawler (@klawls) July 23, 2021
Yeah, we expected a little more from Italy’s outfit. Thumbs down. #Tokyo2020
— Matt Barnes (@Matt_NBC4) July 23, 2021
Interesting outfit Italy #Tokyo2020#TokyoTogetherpic.twitter.com/nBZcPyhCEr
— Out of our League (OOOL) 🏉 (@OOOL1908) July 23, 2021
Italy rockin the pizza delivery outfits #OpeningCeremony
— Dean Koorey (@deankoorey) July 23, 2021
With all the fashion designers in Italy you’d think their #Olympics outfit will come harder than this 🤧
— Sleeping 파이닷 (@fabfaidat) July 23, 2021
Italy looks like they’re being swallowed by Pac-Man in those outfits. #Tokyo2020#OpeningCeremony
— Susanne (@suse_jane) July 23, 2021
Italy’s outfit is amazing #OpeningCeremony#Olympics
— Billy T (@Aqualec) July 23, 2021
Italy win best outfit so far for their Babybel cheese shirts. 10/10 #OpeningCeremony#Olympicspic.twitter.com/KI4oZI5oZe
— Levi Joule (@Levijoule) July 23, 2021
Guess Italy splashed all their cash on Eurovision and the Euros. These outfits….yikes!
— Brodie (@yolajenga) July 23, 2021
Italy has come out swinging for worst outfit so far
— Jac (@jacargon) July 23, 2021
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