“I was anti-vaccination and now I regret it. The covid almost took my life ”: the hard testimony of Indira Jáuregui, a Peruvian who survived the coronavirus

Indira Jáuregui was vaccinated.

But after spending 18 days hospitalized with her family for covid-19 in Lima, Peru, she radically changed her way of thinking.

Connected to oxygen in a health care center, this 49-year-old woman felt that her life was reaching a point of no return.

“For me it was like facing death. I was face down and I began to think about my life. I thought about what I didn’t do and what I should have done. I started to think about my family, about the time that I didn’t spend with my family because I was working. I thought of the hugs I didn’t give, the calls I didn’t make. “

As the hospitals were collapsed, Indira was admitted to a place enabled to attend patients in the middle of the emergency. He got there with his 72-year-old mother, sister, brother-in-law and nephew. All infected with the virus.

She never believed in conspiracy theories like those that point out that vaccines are a plot to exterminate humanity, or that they are made with inhumane procedures in which fetuses are used, or that when you get vaccinated they implant a chip in your arm to spy on you.

Rather, he was afraid of the potential side effects of the vaccination. And her deep belief in natural healing methods led her to believe that it was not necessary to get vaccinated.

This is his testimony told in the first person.

I am an alternative therapist. When I started studying I learned the Japanese reiki technique and now I am working with biomagnetism, which is a therapy with magnets.

In my circle we are interested in everything that is natural, everything that has to do with a holistic vision of human beings. How i like to learn, I have read many books about vaccines and the negative effects they have in health.

But I was never one to demonize them, taking things to an extreme. In social networks such as Facebook or WhatsApp groups, I have seen many messages and videos of people who go to the extreme and talk about the use of fetuses in vaccines, that they want to dominate us and turn us into zombies, or that theory of that when you get vaccinated they put a chip on your arm.

There are also other people in the networks who realize that science and nature complement each other so that human beings have a healthy and balanced life.

I was anti-vaccination because I knew of people who, before the COVID arrived, had been vaccinated against other diseases and had suffered side effects.

I did not want to be vaccinated when the H1N1 virus appeared years ago and here in Peru they carried out vaccination campaigns. I thought that because vaccines have heavy metals, they could cause a lot of side effects. I think that is where fear comes from. Vaccines scared me.

I also think that all the publications that came out on the networks had an influence, each one more fantastic than the other, especially that theory that the pandemic was an invention.

“The hospitals were collapsed”

At first, when COVID first started in China and later in Europe, I thought it was like some sexually transmitted viruses.

But when he got here, I began to become aware of what was happening. I was very careful with disinfection and all the care that must be taken so as not to get infected and not to infect other people.

I did everything possible to avoid contagion, I have even been exaggerating with the issue of care and following the protocols, but in the end I got it in my house, with my family. It was July of last year.

When we tested positive, we called line 107 that we have here in Peru for those with covid. They interned us all in the Pan American Village, some apartments that they built for the athletes who came to the Olympics (2019 Pan American Games).

With the pandemic, that village became like a hospital for people with covid. It is because the hospitals were collapsed, they opened other places for the sick. The Pan American Village was a well-equipped place and the doctors treated us very well.

The problem is that when they admitted me, on the third day I started with a high fever and my blood pressure rose. He didn’t eat, he couldn’t eat. A doctor told me that if I wanted to live, I had to eat.

As it was getting worse, on the sixth day they had to take me down to a place like a hangar where they had patients connected to oxygen. That’s when they brought a balloon and gave me oxygen.

As time went by, my oxygen was increased because it did not improve, until the doctor told me that he had to spend 17 hours face down.

The truth is that I am chubby. So for me being face down was an ordeal. Everything got complicated at that moment.

“It was like facing death”

For me it was like facing death. I was face down and I began to think about my life. I thought about what I didn’t do and what I should have done. I started to think about my family, about the time that I didn’t spend with my family because I was working. I thought about the hugs I didn’t give, the calls I didn’t make.

My whole life passed through my mind, from childhood until then. He said… “My God, give me another chance.”

My mom, on the other hand, was vaccinated with both doses. My sisters took her to get vaccinated and I think my mother was saved by the vaccine. It is that if not, my mother would not have overcome the covid and would not be here with us.

With that experience I realized what was happening and I understood that there are things that science knows why it does. I was anti-vaccination and now I regret it. Covid almost took my lifeBut I was never like those extreme anti-vaccine people. I was never a fanatic who believes everything they tell her.

When I returned home I was convinced to get vaccinated. I waited the three months to wait and I did. And now I’m waiting for the time for the booster shot. Here in Peru we are already with the third dose.

Over time, I think God has given me the reason that it was good that I changed my mind, because Three months ago my uncle Felix passed away from covid and he never wanted to be vaccinated.

I know several people who do not want to get vaccinated. When we talk, I ask them, “What’s the worst that can happen to you? The worst that can happen to you is having side effects, I tell them, but you’re not going to die.”

I also ask them if they love their family, their children. I tell them that if they don’t want to get vaccinated for themselves, to do it for their loved ones.

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