A prominent Israeli vaccine activist reportedly died of COVID-19.
Hai Shaulian, 57, died Monday morning at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon The Jerusalem Post.
His death came after he sent a final message to his Facebook followers on Saturday, informing them that his condition was “extremely critical.”
Next to a photo of him on a fan, he wrote, “Dear friends. My situation is extremely critical.”
Shaulian added that he was “in a very serious condition” and “unable to speak.”
“I don’t have oxygen and I can’t stabilize,” he continued. “It took me about an hour to figure out who I am. Where I am and what I do here. The lack of oxygen is a terrible thing.”
He added that he believed he would recover “with God’s help.”
Despite his dire situation, Shaulian urged his followers to “continue to fight” against Israel’s “Green Pass” scheme which records who has been completely inoculated against COVID, if they have presumed immunity after contracting the disease. or have been negative for the previous 24 hours.
“It has nothing to do with the coronavirus,” he wrote. “It has nothing to do with vaccines. It has to do with coercion.”
When Shaulian fell ill last week, he claimed police had tried to poison him after he was arrested during a protest against the Green Pass.
“I’m telling you, it’s an attempt to eliminate me and if something happens to me, you know that’s exactly what happened,” he said in a video on social media, according to The Times of Israel.
He previously asked his followers not to be vaccinated against COVID-19. “There is no epidemic: the vaccine is unnecessary and dangerous,” he was quoted as saying The mail.
Israel’s Green Pass was revived over the summer along with other restrictions, as the country’s government tried to fight a fourth wave of coronavirus infections driven by the highly contagious Delta variant.
Last month, Israel announced that anyone over the age of 3 should show vaccination tests or a negative COVID-19 test before entering many outdoor spaces.
Israel implemented a swift campaign to vaccinate its population in December last year. To date, 61 percent of the country’s population is fully vaccinated.
The country has also launched a vaccine reinforcement campaign, offering third blows to all those over 30 at the end of August.