Trump Country Rejects Vaccines Despite Growing Delta Threat
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Alexis Brownâs 14-year-old son is featured in a poster for the struggling local vaccination campaign. Photographer: Liz Sanders/Bloomberg
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(Bloomberg) -- Larry Krauck awoke in a strange hospital, the date written on a dry-erase board in his room: Dec. 12, 2020.
That canât be right, he thought. He remembered being treated for Covid-19 at a different hospital in Springfield, Missouri, on Nov. 1. Could the last six weeks really be blank? He told a nurse her board was wrong.
She slipped out of the room and returned with a summary of his procedures, scrawled on a sticky note, including thirty-three days on a blood oxygenation machine called an ECMO. One day, Krauck had flat-lined and was resuscitated.