Tommy Daniels's stay at the Cleveland Clinic only lasted two days, which he and his doctor credit to getting the COVID-19 vaccine in March.
EUCLID, Ohio — When looking at the Ohio Department of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard, 63-year-old Tommy Daniels of Euclid looks back at December 4 as the day he became part of the statistic.
“I felt bad,” he recalled. “My whole body was down. I had trouble eating, smelling food and tasting it. I asked my doctor if I was going to die and he said he didn’t know. So I broke down crying and I cried and I prayed.” “I worry about what could’ve happened to Tommy had he not had the vaccine,” said Dr. Rachel Taliercio with the Cleveland Clinic’s Respiratory Institute. “It was critical to him not only surviving the illness, but he survived COVID-19 and had a mild disease.”
“Tommy has severe COPD, is dependent on oxygen, and takes a lot of medications to keep his condition under control,” Dr. Taliercio said.
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