USA Today: “The family of a man who died of heart issues in Mississippi is asking people to get vaccinated for COVID-19 after 43 hospitals across three states were unable to accept him because of full cardiac ICUs. Ray Martin DeMonia died last week in Meridian, Mississippi. He was three days shy of his 74th birthday and a well-known native in Cullman, Alabama, his family said.”
“DeMonia suffered from a cardiac event, and emergency staff at Cullman Regional Medical Center had to bring him to the nearest available bed, which was nearly 200 miles away at a Mississippi hospital. In his obituary, DeMonia’s family urged people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. ‘In honor of Ray, please get vaccinated if you have not, in an effort to free up resources for non-COVID related emergencies… He would not want any other family to go through what his did.'”