35-Year Old Fully Immunized Portland Women Can’t Get ECMO on Time & Dies of COVID-19
35-Year Old Fully Immunized Portland Women Can’t Get ECMO on Time & Dies of COVID-19
Breakthrough infections, where the fully vaccinated are infected with SARS-CoV-2, become ever more common as TrialSite has chronicled in Israel, the United Kingdom, and increasingly in America. But to date, the data indicates that the vaccinated have far lower probabilities of succumbing to severe infection, including hospitalization or death. That perception changed with data from Herzog Hospital, which revealed growing numbers of hospitalization among high-risk vaccinated groups. Now a fully vaccinated person has died from SARS-CoV-2, indicating the risks must be understood for people fully vaccinated as well. Most recently, Heather Greeley, a 35-year-old Portland, Oregon, died. Her fiancé confirmed both had been fully vaccinated for months.
The thought of them “getting sick from COVID-19 seem far-fetched,” reported Tyler Birkes, the surviving fiancé. Both vaccinated, they contracted breakthrough cases of SARS-CoV-2 that have become ever more common. Initially just feeling like bad colds, reports local news KOIN, “Heather started going downhill.”
Apparently, some days later, Heather struggled to breathe and informed her fiancé she needed to go to the ER. The doctors at the hospital declared she wasn’t ill enough for intake, showing no signs of pneumonia. But the conditions worsened, and Tyler took Heather back to the hospital a few days later. Once at the hospital, she was admitted, placed in a wheelchair, and while Tyler “kissed her on the top of her head and told her I loved her,” it was the last time he ever saw his fiancé.
ECMO treatment could have helped, but at Providence Hospital, all three of them were in use. While Heather did everything right, following the public health declarations, in the end, the disease broke through and took away a beautiful young life. While the overwhelming number of severe hospitalized cases deaths appear to be unvaccinated during this Delta-variant-driven surge, those vaccinated must be very careful. This is a dangerous virus. Multiple media verified this news.