ST. LOUIS, Mo. — To help drive home the danger of the pandemic, a Missouri doctor acted out on video what patients with COVID-19 see in the final moments before they die.
Dr. Kenneth Remy posted the harrowing video to his Twitter account in hopes people take the coronavirus way more seriously than they currently do, and to wear masks out in public.
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At the beginning of the video, Remy pulls the camera in and out to mimic a struggling patient breathing 40 times per minute.
Remy then takes a tube and pretends to put it down the camera's lens to show what it looks like when a patient is hooked up to a ventilator.
Please listen as this is dire. I don’t want to be the last person that looks in your frightened eyes. #MaskUp @DrKenRemy1 @WUSTLmed pic.twitter.com/qwb4eERlfE
— Kenneth E. Remy, MD, MHSc, FCCM (@DrKenRemy1) November 21, 2020
“This is what it’s going to look like." says Remy. "I hope that the last moments of your life don’t look like this. Because this is what you’ll see at the end of your life if we don’t start wearing masks when we’re out in public.”
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