Coronavirus: O'Neill 'contemplated hospitalisation' with Covid
Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she contemplated going to hospital as she suffered a "quite severe" bout of Covid-19 in recent weeks.She said she was "absolutely floored" and it was probably her "worst experience" of illness.
"Given that I felt so bad, I can only imagine what it would have been like if you didn't have the vaccination," she told BBC News NI. "I contemplated did I need to speak to my children," she continued, and explained that people know "how tragic" Covid-19 can be."I think I would have been hospitalised had it not been for the vaccination, so I would use this opportunity to say to people who still haven't taken that step to please get the vaccine, particularly that younger cohort of people," she said.
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