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A message from our President

You Still Think This COVID-19 Thing Is a Joke?

Well, the “real” news is that many of the 346 Floridians that died last week requires the removal of your blood, cleaning it of
from complications associated with COVID-19 infections, died needlessly as carbon dioxide, oxygenating it, and then bring-
most were unvaccinated. Included in this number is one child under the age of ing it up to body temperature before it is added
16. Their life ended even before they had a chance to make their mark. Do you back to your circulatory system. Science is now
really think this is a joke and that you are not susceptible? That your kids aren’t showing greater success for this treatment if it is
susceptible? It is time to change the channel you have been listening to! started earlier in the disease process.
Recently, about 75 physicians gathered in Palm Beach County to plead with Sadly, initially seen as a last resort, COVID-19
residents in Palm Beach and the surrounding areas to get vaccinated. What ulte- patients were usually already in deep trouble
rior motive will the internet doctors come up with to mute those physicians’ when a referral was made to begin this treat- Jaime Caldwell
pleas? Here are the Palm Beach County physicians’ motives. They are exhausted, ment. To let you know, as of late August, there
their resources are running low, and 90 percent of the COVID-19 patients they are were no ECMO machines available in the state of Florida! The ones we have are
seeing, probably wouldn’t be in the hospital at all if they had been vaccinated. The caring for patients and there are waiting lists for the machines when they
physicians can’t understand the stupidity. become available.
You want graphic, "It is impacting the lungs quicker. It's eating away at the lungs. A better decision, because COVID-19 vaccines are plentiful, is to get vaccinat-
It's causing more problems. These people are dying. It's real, it's happening, and the ed and avoid the desperate search for availability across the U.S. P.S., there aren’t
only way we know to prevent it is to get vaccinated," said Ahmen Elhaddad, the any available in the contiguous states of Georgia or Alabama either. Think about
ICU medical director at Jupiter Medical Center. In other articles, this virus is this, you mistakenly decide not to get vaccinated or to get your loved ones vac-
reportedly simultaneously attacking all five lobes in the lung, nothing is spared. cinated and now they have to be flown thousands of miles away, to another state
We can add thousands of infusion chairs to administer monoclonal antibody with no family, to get care. Does that make sense to you? What was your reason
treatments to try and minimize the symptoms of COVID-19, but, that is treatment again?
after the fact. Hasn’t the horse already left the barn before we shut the doors? What The Pfizer vaccine has received full approval by the Food and Drug
about preventing or limiting your symptoms by getting vaccinated? It is time to set Administration (FDA). One more common excuse has fallen by the wayside, and
aside the polarizing politics of medical treatment and listen to the educated and it is no longer an excuse. In fact, the FDA stated that they have never had as
experienced medical community. They are begging you to get vaccinated. much data upon which to judge a vaccine’s safety. No joke, just the truth!
The last-ditch treatment option for COVID-19 patients, when other treatment Please, go and get vaccinated today!
options fail, is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). This treatment

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