After days in hospital, Duval County Property Appraiser Jerry Holland wished he’d had COVID-19 vaccine

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Like truthful galore radical hospitalized with COVID-19 successful caller weeks, Duval County Property Appraiser Jerry Holland said helium wishes he’d gotten the vaccine.

Holland and his woman were some admitted to Mayo Clinic with the virus. He was released implicit the play but his wife, Beverly, is inactive hospitalized.

Jerry Holland told News4Jax connected Monday that helium thought helium was steadfast capable and was not truly disquieted astir contracting coronavirus and decided not to get vaccinated due to the fact that of a absorption his sister had to the shot. Holland said helium thought helium was being harmless and was socially distancing astatine work. Then an worker came to enactment sick.

“I deliberation our bureau volition go an incubator wrong 4 minutes,” helium said. “The adjacent day, I had a tickle successful my pharynx and it conscionable kept progressing from there. This happening is precise contagious.”

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He said others successful his bureau got sick but helium was the lone 1 hospitalized.

“I started taking over-the-counter things and immune worldly and trying to dainty it. And past I contacted my superior care, did immoderate myosin steroids and we worked connected that for a week and they gave maine an oxygen metre to metre that,” helium said. “When it started falling into the 80s, helium said you got to spell and you got to spell to the infirmary now.”

That was past Monday. He spent respective days astatine Mayo and said his woman is inactive there, but she’s improving.

Holland said his 39-year-old lad besides tested affirmative for the microorganism but is recovering astatine home.

Holland said erstwhile helium can, helium volition get the vaccine arsenic helium does not privation to spell done this again.

“It’s a instrumentality successful the toolbox you’ve got to consider,” Holland said. “Talk to your doc and bash what is champion for you and your family.”

As of Friday, the metropolis of Jacksonville said 17 metropolis employees had tested positive.

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“We proceed to promote our employees to get the vaccine. Data shows that astir each of those successful request of attraction astatine our section hospitals are unvaccinated. The vaccine is the champion instrumentality we person to combat COVID-19,” Mayor Lenny Curry’s bureau said successful an email.

In a quality league past this week, Curry said helium did not mean to bid a disguise mandate successful metropolis offices.

“I’m not discouraging wearing masks if radical privation to deterioration masks, businesses privation to necessitate it, they should bash that, and radical should grant and respect that,” Curry said “If radical get vaccinated, we won’t beryllium successful this situation.”

Newby agrees with the mayor. He was hospitalized with COVID-19 past twelvemonth and wants his colleagues to instrumentality it seriously.

“I sent an email retired Thursday, encouraging everyone connected the City Council to get vaccinated, and to deterioration the disguise portion they’re successful the hallways, and past City Council,” Newby said. “I mean, you know, I can’t mandate, but I promote it.”

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Some large employers and tiny businesses person required masks for employees.

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