WV MetroNews commentary: COVID-19 sickbed conversions

The following commentary was written by Hoppy Kercheval, of MetroNews:

"Covid-19 patients being treated at WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, who are the sickest of the sick, end up in the ECMO program. ECMO stands for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.

"It is one of the most advanced forms of life support available to patients experiencing acute failure of the cardio-respiratory system. Doctors use heart-lung machines to oxygenate the blood outside the body and then pump it back into the patient.

"This is where Dr. Jeremiah Hayanga, the thoracic surgeon who is the director of the ECMO program, hears the sick bed conversions of patients who did not get the Covid vaccine.

"'We’ve seen patients who adamantly refused to get vaccinated,' Dr. Hayanga said on MetroNews Talkline Thursday. 'There were many reasons that patients… used as rationale for not getting vaccinated.

"However, becoming deathly ill causes the patients to reconsider their decisions."

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