A Covid patient who was left “unable to speak” has written a burdensome message from the ICU bed asking friends to “shoot the prey.”
Charlotte Broussard, 72, of Lafayette, Louisiana, wrote the handwritten note from her hospital bed at Baton Rouge General.
While it was about the virus, she was intubated to help her breathe and could not speak, according to The Advocate.
Charlotte Broussard, 72, who was left “unable to speak,” wrote a distressing message from her ICU bed asking friends to “shoot the prey.”
He signaled to the nurses that he wanted to write something and wrote a note urging people to get vaccinated.
Photographs were shared of the notes the patient wrote, including one that said “shoot the prey.” Twitter by CBS correspondent David Begnaud.
This comes after an unvaccinated police lieutenant and father of three children from Baker, Louisiana, died of complications from Covid-19 on August 13, a day before his wedding.
Demarcus Dunn, 36, had planned to marry his fiancée Francine in July 2020, but rescheduled the ceremony on August 14 due to the pandemic, Baker’s police chief told ABC News , Carl Dunn.
She wrote the handwritten note from the bed of Baton Rouge General Hospital while she was intubated and unable to communicate verbally.
Unable to speak, he signaled to the nurses that he wanted to write something and wrote a note urging people to get vaccinated.
But Dunn tested positive for the virus on July 29 and put on a fan on August 10.
Carl Dunn, who is a cousin of the victim, said he did not know why the police lieutenant was not vaccinated and that it was not a requirement of the department.
His death comes amid continuing hesitation over vaccination among black Americans, many of whom say his reason lies in the historic discrimination of health.
Louisiana has a wide gap in vaccination rates among black and white residents, with nearly twice as many white people being vaccinated (59%) than the black population (31%).
Demarcus Dunn (left), 36, a lieutenant police officer in Baker, Louisiana, died of complications from Covid-19 on August 13, a day before his wedding. He is shown in the picture with his cousin and Baker police chief Carl Dunn
According to the New York Times, Louisiana Covid-19 cases peaked at the all-time pandemic on Aug. 16, with 13,370 new cases and a seven-day rotating average of 5,386 cases.
The deaths also reached their highest number on Aug. 17 with 122 records and a seven-day average of 50.
A March 2021 study published by the National Biotechnology Information Center found that about 33 percent of black Americans said they were “not sure” if they would be vaccinated and that about 23 percent said: “I’ll vaccinate her again.”
Meanwhile, 23 percent of white Americans said they were “not sure” if they would get the shot and only 12 percent said they would never get it.
Louisiana is also one of the states with the lowest vaccination rates, with only 40% of the population fully vaccinated, according to Our World in Data.
After several weeks of delayed rates, the pace of U.S. vaccinations against COVID-19 has revived.
More than one million Americans have received a vaccine against COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, which is the total of one day higher in seven weeks.
Of those shots, more than half were people receiving the first dose of a two-dose vaccine.
In addition, several states experiencing the highest uptake of traits are among those with the worst rises in Covid cases, such as Florida and Louisiana.