Sadly, it has been reported that a Southwest Hawaii flight attendant, Reggie Shepperson, who was fully vaccinated, has died due to COVID. The airline confirmed the death of one of its employees.
Reggie was just 36 years old and was based in Las Vegas, where he died following weeks on a ventilator. The death took place nearly two months after he tested positive following work on flights to and from Hawaii. Reggie had been a Southwest flight attendant since 2012.
His mother said that Reggie was extremely cautious about COVID. She also shared that he took her on his last Southwest Hawaii work trips before contracting COVID. She said that they both tested negative before leaving for Hawaii. Reggie posted on Facebook, “Took mommy on my work trip to Hawaii. I’ll be back to get her tomorrow lol love this woman with all my heart.”
A GoFundMe page has been set up by his friend Marcia Hildreth. She said, “Reggie Shepperson passed away on August 10th from Covid-19. Reggie was a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines, and he loved his job! His personality, wit, and humor were just a few characteristics that everyone adored. He was one of the kindest, most giving people I’ve ever known.”
RIP.
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Th above was on the internet this AM.
My Dr. Daughter just finished her rotation, already scheduled on 2 off days as a “Stanby/Back up call physician” Subject to call back (she knows she’ll be called in already). The University has put out a call for more Back up Internists to be available.
Things are looking bleak with the next surge coming.
Just spoke with my Dr. Daughter on her way home from a 14hr shift. The University is bracing for another surge in COVIDS. Their ER alone is 75 beds, today she did Triage. She saw a “large number” of COVIDS ALL in the 20-30 age nonvaccinated, mostly “Healthy Catagory” bracket.
One of her Intensivist Colleagues said her ICU’s are being overwhelmed and she’s getting calls from hospitals in Texas trying to find ICU beds. She also mentioned she got a call from a small hospital with a full ICU that has 10 vents running and only ONE Family Practice Physician to manage the vents.
I know what it’s like to Manage the Respiratory portion for 10-14 vent PLUS the open Heart Fresh Post OPs.
All I can say is God Bless all the medical staff and first responders.
That’s heart wrenching in many ways Bob, not the least is the fact that the Doctors on the front line are giving so much of themselves
to save people’s lives and it didn’t have to happen. Sad also is now in many places people who have had a heart attack, stroke or bad accident are being deprived of an ICU bed that could save their life.
Has to be incredibly frustrating to see people peddling misinformation thats proving fatal for some. I know that sounds harsh but here on Oahu the go to Hospital when someone needs emergency care no longer has room in the ICU due to unvaccinated Covid patients.
My Kid is an Internal Medicine Physician and Asst. Professor at a university medical center, they are over capacity and cannot “divert” as they ARE the University. Other hospitals, ones with low census, maybe diverting to the University patients they either don’t want OR cannot treat. (Known as dumping, actually been going on for years)
She has COVID Team rotations as well as ER Triage Rotations as well as Teaching rotations.
She has told us most of the COVID patients she admits are unvaccinated persons and/OR those that refuse to wear a mask.
Few are fully vaccinated although it “does happen”.
All she can say is get the vaccine, and STILL wear a mask when out in public.
I spent 40 years sticking breathing tubes in peoples throats in ICU’s/ER’s and managing life support machines. Responding to many Code Blues, some successful some not.
Sadly what I saw during that time is many people die alone, without family or friends.
With the various COVID visitor restrictions so many people die under those conditions.
My wife was hospitalized last Sept for a severe GI condition, pretty lonely feeling letting her out of the car at the ER and NOT being allowed in or see her for 4 days until discharged.
None of these ‘vaccines’ will stop you from getting or spreading covid – the clinical ‘trials’ only test for ‘reduced symptoms’. These are facts, not my opinions – easily verifiable. If you think you are protected because you got a vaccine, you have been lied to, I am sad to say.
Also easily verifiable is how less serious the symptoms are for the vaccinated and the fact that the extremely rare occurrence of someone vaccinated dying is a major story.
Hi John.
Thanks for hanging in there with us. We appreciate your nearly 250 comments to date!
Aloha.
Mahalo and stay safe, I guess you saw the Headline in the paper this morning….. Queens ICU is full here on Oahu
and your case load is climbing on Kauai…..saw were it’s 90 percent community spread and primarily unvaccinated
Aloha
Hi John.
Yes, we are aware about Queens. Thanks very much for your participation on Beat of Hawaii!
Aloha.
This is so tragic. This was my biggest concern as I’d mentioned before. I think I was a passenger on one of his flights as I enjoy Southwest and he is very familiar. I’m so saddened to hear this. I’m actually very worried about the effects of the spike protein from the Vax as well as several young and older have had issue. I think we need open dislogue of what’s going on with flight crew dying after vaccination and review cause of death very closely, just to be holistic on data to help others understand. What a horrible thing. He tried his best, he loved his job, and now this. So much Aloha to his grieving family and friends who must be devastated. Tragic loss. Just too sad.
A comment was posted about the perils of this becoming a vax vs anti vax issue and dividing us further. I agree, while I strongly believe in the vaccination, I know people that I like and care about that are anti vax or sadly vax skeptical due to misinformation.
That said Hawaii is in trouble and it appears to be coming to a head. We had one of the lowest infection rates in the country ( world?) early on and now that has all gone away. The culprit is not tourism. Over ninety percent of the hospitalizations are unvaccinated.
The Big Island hospitals worst day in 2020 had 291 Covid patients…by the end of the week they are on track to hit 300.
If someone has a heart attack, sepsis or bad accident they will be denied a bed in intensive care and be stuck in the the ER….because of unvaccinated patients…many (most?) that were victims of misinformation and now wish they had taken the jab that would have almost for sure kept them out of the hospital….I’m struggling with that reality.
Aloha and good luck to us all, no one should die for a simple bad decision.
The story does not always get told, but there is currently a Class Action Law Suit in Hawaii as over 1,200 First Responders refuse to be vaccinated, one a Fire Captain who is 2nd Generation and himself 20+ years has become the face of the situation. That said, there is still the reality that no one broadly talks of the success of Therapuetics, which has been massively and broadly successful, and what was missing because of a false narrative early-on in 2020. This entirely reversed the situation in India! Godspeed to all.
Three more first responders in Florida (unvaccinated) just died in the same week bringing the total first responders death by Covid to over 300. By far the number one line of duty killer of first responders. Happened the same week when 6 unvaccinated members of the same church all died.Covid is currently ravaging the unvaccinated in Florida….
Interesting comment considering the context of the article.
The obvious message is that fully vaccinated people are still able to contract (and spread) covid.
Failing to test everyone (compared to last year) coming to the islands is a flaw in accurately understanding who is spreading covid.
I agree 10,000%!
Do you know of any unvaccinated person who ended up in the hospital. The only people who I know that were in the hospital were actually vaccinated. Friend’s father was in hospital for 6 days after being vaccinated and almost died,he had to be one support. You know what the doctor said when asked if this hospitalization was due to the vaccine? He said yes his hospitalization was absolutely due to the vaccine. I also have 3 friends who died from the vaccine. The hawaii flight attendant who died was vaccinated, he was in the hospital. Just consider, how do you prove what is misinformation and what is not, you can only go by real life experience a d who you know. My mom or I do not know of one single unvaccinated person who has been in the hospital and hospitalized with covid.
There are many nonsensical comments in this string but the one quoted here is one of the worst. I am a ER doc on the frontline in a high transmission city in Texas full of fools who believe this nonsense. I see about 5-7 new cases of sick Covid-19 cases per shift and most are not vaccinated. Almost all of the critically ill Covid cases are unvaccinated. I have treated a few vaccinated cases with severe Covid but they all were immune compromised by an underlying disease or certain medications.
The highly contageous Delta variant most likely arose because so many people in the US refused their vaccine dose. It won’t be the last nasty variant to evolve because many are still unvaccinated.
Good luck to S and his Mom because they will very likely get Covid then come running to the ED for help.
Good luck to everyone. Both my parents and myself got covid already and recovered on our own, never went to the hospital for help. We let our immune systems fight it off naturally and took lots of vitamins and treated our bodies good to help fight it off. My husband also got covid, no hospital visit ever. My husband’s father who has CHRONIC kidney disease and goes to dialysis 3 times a week, got covid as well, didnt need any treatment from the hospital. His brother also got covid after he recovered from cancer, he is now fine. I have also had ER doctors tell me that it is the vaccinated who are filling up the hospitals, including a doctor who said the vaccine is a human experiment, and caused my friend’s father to nearly die. We will take care of our immune system, the best defense of all.
Out of curiosity, how many of the unvaccinated covid patients you mention that were critically ill, how many of those unvaccinated patients also had underlying problems such as compromised immune system by an underlying disease? My guess is a lot of them. Just like patients who die from cancer or heart disease or any other disease, they have a compromised immune system. If more people would take care better care of their immune system and exercise and take less prescription drugs, there would be a lot less.hospital visits I am sure.
Additionally, I know a nurse who works at a hospital, and despite alleged Covid cases going up in the region he works in, he said the hospitals are EMPTY.
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My daughter is a physician at a University Hospital, capacity 500 beds, they currently are are at 600 patients. Patients in hallways, conference rooms, patients in exam rooms, wherever they can put them.
Not all Covids but many VERY sick people.
I asked about the Delta Variant, she said they don’t bother to test for it specifically as they the treatment regimen is the same for all the COVID cases. They are just trying to get through the crisis.
Well “S” you have made some pretty crazy accusations on here and sound very Q anon based to me.
But what’s sad, and you’re not alone here, is the people that use the argument that “I had Covid and survived, so it’s not that bad”…..really? Covid is like Russian Roulette, we all know that. Good for you if it’s true but that completely disregards those that are not so lucky. You are ok so who cares about those that aren’t?? Even worse is the argument that “if you took care of yourself you would be ok”…..as if the less healthy, immune compromised people, older people or even the gentleman in this story are less important than you. Finally do you really think the hospitals across the country that are getting maxed out with unvaccinated patients and pushing the staff to their limits have all decided to make that up in unison? Narcissism is the other pandemic sweeping this country and it’s sad to see.
Auwe!
Also, it’s easy to claim that the unvaccinated are spreading covid and created the alleged delta variant, even though I have heard medical professionals so that there is no such thing as a variant, covid has never been isolated either. However, per medical professionals the vaccinated are actually the ones spreading Covid, hence so many vaccinated friends of mine testing positive for covid. I do not personally know of one single unvaccinated person who has tested positive for covid, including myself when I took a covid test in order to fly.
Re John’s comment on me dismissing immune compromises individuals, my husband’s father has a compromised immune system, he has chronic kidney disease and has to go to dialysis 3 times a week, just so that his kidney won’t fail. My husband’s father is an example of someone who depends on hospital treatment 3 times a week must to stay alive. He contracted COVID, and despite his chronic kidney disease, he survived covid, without needing any hospital treatment. He actually handled COVID better than myself and my husband. I am just trying to encourage people to improve their immune system and stay healthy so they have better chances of fighting off any disease, make sure you get vitamin d from the sun, rake vitamin c, melatonin and niacin. Research.
Aloha, So nice to read about your tolerance for people who choose a different path. I’ve loved ones who got vaxxed first opportunity. Their peace of mind and feeling of having some control during a time of madness was itself beneficial. I’ve close friends who are holistic centered, intelligent and compassionate who’ve rejected CV vaccines and take all protective measures whenever in public. They are truly no threat to anyone.
It’s distressing to see one group attacked by the other in various media outlets and on social media, as factions from each side often do.
■ Skepticism about these vaccines isn’t soley from ‘Disinformation’,though.■
The precedents of Government / Media / Big Pharm mistakes / recalls / abuses and even outright Crimes Against Humanity are Very Real. We as a society simply didn’t do the Hard Work necessary to get to a place where We The People can trust with complete confidence whatever we’re being told.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Expiriemts on Black males 1970s wasn’t that long ago. Now, the low vax demographic African Americans are being patronized as ‘vaccine ignorant’ and in need of targeted campaigns to help get them on board…. Please.
I don’t fault anyone mistrustful of Politicians, haha. Nor of Media Outlets or Pharmacuetical Billionaires. I don’t blame the so called Disinfo Spreaders half as much as the authorities and experts telling us we really can and must Trust Them – This Time. They’ve a lousy track record.
As a CoHeart of Reggie ❤️💙💛 it’s hard to lose one of our own. RIP Reggie and thoughts and prayers to his mom and entire family 🙏
Breakthrough covid is much more common than people know. I know two people personally who have contracted covid fully vaccinated, and struggled.
God Bless Reggie and his family. God Bless all of us.
We are in this together. We have to see ourselves as ONE big family.
Serve one another
Love one another
Remember God
When you are broken-hearted the Lord is close to you!!! In the book of Psalms😇😍