'Terrible experience' - Publisher urges Black community to get COVID vaccine
Ivory Payne said he felt so bad that he even recalled contemplating what his last words would be, if his time had come.
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Ivory Payne said he felt so bad that he even recalled contemplating what his last words would be, if his time had come.
“It’s the flu to the 12th power,” remarked Ivory Payne, a Baton Rouge publisher who is urging Black Louisianans to get COVID-19 vaccines. “I couldn’t breathe,” Payne said, describing his own experience with the virus in early February. “I think the shortness of breath was the worst thing. It was a terrible experience.” After his doctors told him to go home and quarantine for 14 days, Payne, 60, found that his fight against the respiratory illness had just begun. He said that after a difficult two weeks in isolation, his condition only got worse. Payne described a litany of tro...
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