been in the hospital for 76 days. i highly recommend everybody to get the vaccines and really protect themselves because this is no joke. that message part of a new ad campaign from the department of health and human services takes a fear-based approach to try to change the minds of the unvaccinated in the united states. this shift comes as the new quinnipiac poll shows half of all americans disapprove of how president biden is handling the pandemic. but as cnn s amara walker reports, the cdc is forecasting some better news on the horizon. i died three times. they gave me a 5% chance of living. reporter: real-life, near-death stories from the unvaccinated. i got covid. i was intubated and in a coma for 11 days. reporter: the department of
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those words may have been their last. amara walker reports. reporter: well, some parents and relatives say one of the ways they found out was through text messages from their loved ones. and some of the last communication is just starting to emerge. and as you d emerge, it s just so heartbreaking to read these text messages. in one text a student on the ship wrote his older brother, i m on my way to jeju island but the ship hit something and is not moving. the older brother asked is it bad? to which the younger brother replied, i m inside. so i don t know. the older brother responded, don t panic. and that was the last message from the older brother that has not been opened. now, cnn has also obtained a picture of a purported text message from a student who is or was trapped. and the text message was received by the student s mother. here s how that reads. no phone connection. so there is no internet connection. so just sending text message. there are few people on the ship.
been caught. more now on our top story, authorities in south korea are trying to figure out what caused that passenger ship to sink in the waters of the country s southwest coast. yeah, close to 300 people are still unaccounted for. and a massive rescue operation is in full swing, amara walker reports. reporter: this is the ferry sewol, now almost completely submerged. the ship headed towards jeju, nearly 500 people on board, 325 of them high school students from just outside seoul on a class trip. wednesday, shortly before 9:00 a.m., the ship sent out a distress call. witnesses heard a loud bang, then the ferry started to list. the passengers were urged to put on their life jackets, and the passengers began to scramble. there was an announcement telling us to sit still on the