‘I cried and cried’: Unvaccinated Republican assumed COVID-19 ‘wouldn’t be that bad’ – then came perilously close to dying

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A whopping 99.2 percent of the people who died of COVID-19 in May were people who weren’t vaccinated, Forbes reported, citing data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It showed that only 150 out of 18,000 COVID deaths in May were “breakthrough” infections of fully vaccinated people.

One of those people who survived was Republican Party of Lakeland chairman James Ring, who says now that he “certainly was dying,” when he contracted the virus at a volleyball tournament where his daughters played in Orlando, reported The Ledger.

“I haven’t shared this with many people, but I just spent the last few days confined to a small room in the COVID unit at Lakeland Regional Health with COVID pneumonia in both my lungs,” Ring said in a Facebook post. Continue reading.