Teddy and Rachel Willems are a couple living in Florida who are now making the population aware of getting the vaccine. Both were infected with coronavirus and had to be hospitalized. They, like the majority of patients being treated in the clinics, were not vaccinated against Covid – 19.
They say they were infected during a trip to Tennessee with their 5-year-old daughter. All of them were quarantined at home before things got much worse and they had to be hospitalized.
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“We were in the same hospital, but on two different floors ,” explained Rachel Willems in statements to the local media.
Her husband Teddy Willems is a nurse in the emergency room at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center in Fort Pierce, Florida and, at even though he had seen many severe and worrying cases stemming from cor onavirus, he always declined to inoculate worried about the side effects of the medicine.
“I think the mental aspect is a great thing that people don’t talk about. I was separated from my family for a week and we didn’t see our daughter, ”said Richael Willems. “ Being in the hospital, you are alone, but then you know that you cannot see your family. No one is allowed to come to visit you. You can’t see your daughter “, he related.
Now that they have passed this” nightmare “, both are willing to get the vaccine once they have fully recovered. At the same time, they are also encouraging the population to take the dose against the coronavirus.
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“We were not vaccinated before. We are going to talk to our doctors. We will follow the path that they believe is best for us. I think, of course, everyone is worried about the coronavirus. We were, but we were not afraid, but after all we have seen how dangerous it is, “explained the woman .
The couple admitted that the only person in the group who did not get sick was the father of Rachel. He is a man of 70 years old, diabetic and the only person in the group who was vaccinated.