I suppress a howl of disbelief. She would rather die than get a Covid vaccine
Some 75 percent of those suffocating in intensive care with the coronavirus are unvaccinated.
She is young, ashen, and fighting for her life, and all I can offer is morphine. Recent chemotherapy has sent her blood count crashing. The drugs that could cure her breast cancer are so toxic to her body that even an innocuous infection could be fatal. As she flinches from the pain of taking a breath, I know that her raw, inflamed lung is scraping against the wall of her chest, making each gasp an ordeal.