A Covid-19 survivor came out of a coma after 65 days. Now she supports vaccinations
After spending two months in a coma due to Covid-19 earlier this year, a California woman is urging people to get vaccinated. Andrea Arriaga Borges of Cameron Park was unvaccinated when she got sick with Covid-19, she told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Monday. The mother of five tested positive in May 2021 and wound up in the emergency room days later.
"I was in a coma for 65 days. I spent a total of four-and-a-half months in the hospital," she said on CNN's New Day. "I couldn't walk. I lost my motor skills and my muscle, dropped about 35 pounds, and came home in a wheelchair; re-learned how to walk again."
While Arriaga Borges, 48, has had a remarkable recovery, the effects of Covid stay with her, like her "raspy voice" that she has from a tracheotomy, she said. For months she was on a feeding tube and could not talk, she added. "The doctors told my children, my sister, my husband that I had, like, a 5% chance of survival," Arriaga Borges said. She beat the odds and went home August 29.
Arriaga Borges had previously been "against" vaccination, she said. Arriaga Borges said she was healthy with no underlying health issues. She never smoked and had no heart or lung problems. "I thought I was going to be sick for four or five days and then be fine, and that's not how it went," she said.
After her brush with death, Arriaga Borges is urging people to get vaccinated.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/us/covid-19-survivor-supports-vaccines-trnd/index.html
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