Chula Vista ER nurse who should have died makes vaccine plea
An ER nurse is making a vaccine plea months after surviving a harrowing COVID battle in the ICU.
and last updated 2021-07-26 20:54:54-04
CHULA VISTA, Calif. (KGTV) - An ER nurse is making a vaccine plea months after surviving a harrowing COVID battle in the ICU.
âI have good days and bad days,â said Danny Plata, 38.
Plata s recovery is slow going, but he is grateful.
âMy odds were really bad. Iâm a walking miracle, literally,â said Plata.
Plata was all too familiar with the tragic impact of COVID. The single father of two worked on the frontlines when the pandemic started, as an ER nurse at Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center.
“When I call time of death, I hug their family and I tell them the best way to honor their loved one is to get vaccinated. They cry. They thought it was a hoax,” Cobia said.
“I actually cried a little when I read that story. A lot of us have experienced some variation of that story, those of us working in hospitals in the past year,” said Andrea Muir.
Muir is a registered nurse at Sharp Memorial in San Diego and said she’s seeing firsthand an increase in the number of COVID-19 patients.
Muir recalled the story of an unvaccinated man whose oxygen levels were dropping and fought off nurses as they tried desperately to help him.
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North County frontline medical workers now have new tools to continue their fight against the coronavirus.
The Tri-City Hospital Foundation raised the funds to purchase a new extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine and an Airvo High-Flow Oxygen Device for the Tri-City Medical Center staff.
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The Airvo is the 13th in the organization s arsenal. Respiratory-care practitioner Shannon Cocilova said the Airvo delivers high oxygen concentrations to COVID-19 patients. It’s an alternative to ventilators.
The ECMO, however, is the first in the North County. The $152,000 machine can step in when the patient’s body needs to rest.
Updated on April 5, 2021 at 6:42 pm
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Following a difficult journey battling COVID-19, Sharp Healthcare ER nurse Danny Plata said he s a miracle because, after nearly three months, he walked out of the hospital on Monday.
The beloved nurse was treated with a round of applause and cheers as he walked out of Sharp Memorial Monday afternoon. Plata has spent nearly the last three months relying on his colleagues.
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“It s amazing,” Plata said. I m literally a miracle.
The father of two said doctors and nurses at Sharp Memorial did everything at the perfect time to save his life.
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