A father-of-five despatched a heartbreaking textual content message to his fiancee saying he ought to have had the COVID-19 vaccine – simply days earlier than he succumbed to the lethal illness.
Michael Freedy, 39, handed away Thursday at a hospital in his hometown of Las Vegas, lower than two weeks after contracting the virus.
Earlier this month, Freedy and his fiancee, Jessica DuPreeze, took a seashore trip to California with their 5 youngsters – aged between 17 and 17 months.
After returning to Las Vegas, Freedy fell ailing and went to hospital believing he was affected by extreme sunstroke.
Medical doctors found his blood oxygen stage was critically low and examined him for Covid, which returned a constructive outcome.
As his respiratory deteriorated, Freedy texted DuPreeze saying: ‘I ought to have gotten the rattling vaccine.’ He was later positioned on a ventilator earlier than he handed away.
Talking with KMOV on Friday, a heartbroken DuPreeze defined: ‘We wished to attend only one 12 months from the discharge [of the vaccine] to see what results folks had, however there was by no means any intention to not get it’.
She stated that she has now had her first shot and can ‘all the time remorse’ not making Freedy get immunized.
‘He was solely 39. Our infants now do not have a dad. You possibly can’t say I’m younger and it will not have an effect on me as a result of it should,’ she informed the information community.
Michael Freedy, 39, handed away Thursday at a hospital in his hometown of Las Vegas, lower than two weeks after contracting the virus
Freedy is pictured along with his fiancee Jessica DuPreeze and 4 of their 5 kids
DuPreeze sayshat she has now had her first shot and can ‘all the time remorse’ not making Freedy get immunized. The couple are pictured collectively in happier instances
The tragic information comes as America’s vaccination charges stall, regardless of the unfold of the highly-contagious Delta variant.
Lower than half of People are totally vaccinated as of Friday, with 164 million folks, or 49.4% of the entire US inhabitants, having obtained each doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or a single dose of the Johnson &Johnson jab.
Prior to now week, the US has averaged simply over 700,000 pictures per day – far under the common of 4 million pictures per day originally of April.
Even the surge of the Delta variant doesn’t appear to be incentivizing unvaccinated People to get the vaccine.
On Thursday, the US reported a whopping 95,000 new COVID instances – up from simply 15,000 on the identical day final month.
In the meantime, DuPreeze has defended her determination to go on trip with Freedy and their youngsters on a GoFundMe account.
‘It was to get the youngsters out of the warmth advisory warning that Vegas had, but in addition as a result of we really had two days off in a row collectively. We went to the seashore,’ she acknowledged, sharing a photograph of Freedy holding their youngest son on the shore.
DuPreeze continued to replace the web page as her companion’s situation deteriorated, earlier than she heartbreakingly disclosed he had died on Thursday.
‘I used to be on the hospital visiting Mike and telling him all about our children day and the way everybody was pulling for him. His numbers crashed and so they weren’t in a position to convey them again up,’ she wrote.
‘The love of my life, my rock, my the whole lot. The daddy to my infants, is now not with us. I don’t know what to do.’
DuPreeze defended her determination to go on trip with Freedy and their youngsters on a GoFundMe web page
DuPreeze shared this selfie that Freedy took as he fought COVID within the ICU
The couple share 5 kids collectively, and DuPreeze has been left heartbroken by her companion’s shock demise
