'I'm going to die, aren't I?': Sask.'s unvaccinated express regret about not getting a COVID-19 jab
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As Saskatchewan makes its way through the province's fourth wave of COVID-19, health-care workers across the province share their difficult experiences as they continue to treat those suffering from the virus.
Dr. Alex Wong, an infectious diseases doctor at Regina General Hospital, is one of those workers who has taken to social media and given the public a glimpse of the reality inside the province's ICUs.
Wong said he's heard dying patients express regret about not getting a COVID-19 vaccine dose when they had a chance.
He used an example of one man who was unvaccinated.
"I should have had my shots ... my wife had hers. She kept kept telling me to get mine. I'm going to die, aren't I?" Wong recalls the man saying.
The man was able to speak with his family one last time before he was taken to the ICU to be intubated, a procedure to assist someone when they are no longer to breathe on their own.
"He told them how sorry he was over and over again and, unfortunately, three days later he died alone," Wong said.
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