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A few days after 37-year-old Cedric Daniels of Gonzales, Louisiana, made a day trip to New Orleans to visit his nephew, Daniels began feeling weak, having blurred vision and shortness of breath. His nephew, only 22, had to be rushed to a hospital, unable to breathe.
The pair were the only members in each household unvaccinated from the coronavirus, and as Daniels laid in a hospital bed at Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center in Baton Rouge Monday with an oxygen tube connected to his nose, he said it was a decision he regrets.
"They're talking about putting tubes down your throat possibly if your oxygen doesn't go up within the next hour, and that is frightening," Daniels said. "You start to question, 'I may not make it out of here.'"
But Daniels was one of the lucky ones. He was discharged later that day with an oxygen tank after about a week in the hospital. His nephew remains in a medically induced coma on a ventilator at West Jefferson Medical Center in the New Orleans suburb of Harvey.
"I want him to walk out of there," Daniels said. "I want him to, when they get ready to wake him up out of this induced coma, for which I know is beneficial for him, I want him to walk out of there. I want him to get his strength."
Doctors say if his nephew Joshua Bradstreet Contreras survives, he will be in for a long, slow recovery.
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