Simply three weeks in the past, Mélodie Trépanier Léger was, by all accounts, a wholesome, vibrant 21-year-old. Now, the Sallaberry-de-Valleyfield resident is clinging to life in a Montreal hospital after contracting COVID-19.
“Her lungs are like cardboard,” mentioned her father Jimmy Trépanier. “I’m nervous that she won’t come out.”
Trépanier Léger developed COVID-19 signs on Sept. 17 and was admitted to hospital per week later. Her situation deteriorated quickly and he or she needed to be positioned in a medically-induced coma on the McGill College Well being Centre’s Royal Victoria Well being Centre.
“She hasn’t opened her eyes since,” Trépanier mentioned, including he’s nervous and frightened.
“I’m not crying my tears from the surface, however I’m drowning in them from the within. My soul is drowning, hoping.”
Mélodie Trépanier Léger is seen on this undated photograph earlier than she contracted COVID-19. Courtesy Sophie Léger.
Courtesy Sophie Léger/ Fb
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Trépanier mentioned his daughter didn’t imagine in COVID-19 and so refused to get vaccinated.
“She was pondering …let’s say the federal government was utilizing (COVID-19) to both make more cash, to revenue on and even scare the inhabitants,” he mentioned. “Now she’s intubated.”
Trépanier Léger’s household goes public along with her story within the hopes others will change their thoughts and shield themselves by getting vaccinated.
Her mom, Sophie Léger, has been sharing updates in French on Fb and began the hashtag #vaccinpourmelo to boost consciousness.
On the day she was transferred from a neighborhood hospital to the MUHC, Léger begged for folks to suppose lengthy and exhausting about not getting vaccinated.
“She could be at our aspect, vigorous pursuing her desires,” Léger wrote of her daughter.
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In Quebec, 85 per cent of the eligible inhabitants is satisfactorily vaccinated towards COVID-19. Those that aren’t, are 7.6 occasions extra prone to turn out to be contaminated with the virus and have a 26.7 occasions increased probability of being hospitalized, in keeping with the Institut nationwide de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ).
Dr. Gaston De Serres an epidemiologist with the INSPQ mentioned sadly the virus is right here to remain and people who aren’t vaccinated will ultimately get contaminated.
And whereas youthful individuals are much less in danger then older folks of ending up in hospital due to COVID-19, he cautioned towards minimizing its impression and evaluating it with different respiratory viruses like influenza.
“The issue with COVID-19 is this can be a virus for which our inhabitants has no earlier immunity in comparison with influenza,” he defined. ” Whenever you’re at 20 years of age, you may have most likely encountered influenza a number of occasions. So you’re in a state of affairs the place you possibly can face a brand new an infection with minimal threat.”
That’s not true with COVID-19.
“Given the truth that this virus is completely new for people who’re unvaccinated. You recognize, there will probably be a a lot better proportion ending up in intensive care models,” he mentioned.
De Serres is encouraging everybody who hasn’t but gotten a shot to get vaccinated.
“They’re actually offering good safety and they’re protected,” he mentioned of the vaccines.
As for Trépanier-Léger’s household, they’re attempting to stay optimistic that Mélodie will get better.
“She’s going to come out. She’s going to come out,” her dad mentioned.
— with recordsdata from International Information’ Tim Sargeant
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