A TikTok creator in Florida has urged her followers to get vaccinated in her last video before she herself died of the disease on Aug. 24, 2021, expressing nothing but regret that she did not get vaccinated soon enough.
Megan Alexandra Blankenbiller died nine days after posting her final TikTok video from her hospital bed, where she urged the unvaccinated to get the shot as soon as possible and expressed deep regret at her initial hesitation and mistrust to get the shot, according to People.
“I did not get vaccinated. I'm not anti-vax,” she remarked. “I am not anti-vax, I was just trying to do my research. I was scared and wanted me and my family to all do it at the same time and, as I’m sure you all know, it’s hard to get everyone to agree on something if people feel differently.”
She continued to express her remorse on the matter and stated clearly that she shouldn’t have been so hesitant to take the vaccine as soon as it was available to her, according to the New York Daily News.
“I do think it was a mistake. I shouldn’t have waited. If you are even 70 percent sure that you want the vaccine, go get it. Don’t wait. Go get it, because hopefully if you get it, then you won’t end up in the hospital like me,” she said.
An earlier video showed her in a hospital bed after she was diagnosed with COVID-19, narrating her experiences inside the hospital.
“I've been here since for early Friday morning,” she said. “And all I've been hearing are the moans and screams of people in pain — people, I'm assuming, that have lost people that they love because I know what that's like personally and what that sounds like.”
“Her final video really showed a lot of who she was,” Rachel Blankenbiller, Megan's sister, said. “She was selfless — the type of person who used her final days to help others.”
Florida has reported more than 46,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, with the state facing a large surge of infections over the past few months. Only 55 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated, according to Johns Hopkins.
Meanwhile, the Pfizer vaccine has been given full approval of use by the Food and Drug Administration.
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