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Tyron Stoltz passed away due to COVID-19 on August 2.

Tragically, that was just three days before the Jozi father of two was due to be vaccinated.

Now Tyron’s sister, Kirsty Stoltz, has taken to social media to appeal to South Africans to get vaccinated, which she believes would have saved her brother’s life.

The science backs that up, with critical care doctors in South Africa reporting that it’s overwhelmingly unvaccinated patients that they’re treating.

You’ve read the stories of regret, both from abroad and locally, but vaccine hesitancy remains a major issue for healthcare workers who treat critically ill patients.

Here’s Kirsty’s post from August 1, a day before her brother passed away:

If you click ‘See More’ you can read the post in full, but here’s a section that really stands out, via News24:

“Ty is 46, overweight, strong – but with no comorbidities. He got sick before he could be vaccinated. He was taking ivermectin. It did not help him. It does not work. What does work, is being fully vaccinated with either the Pfizer or J&J vaccine.”

…”Once vaccinated, you might still get ill, but the vaccine will protect you from serious illness and death… If you choose to not get vaccinated, I would suggest you update your will and have a parenting plan in place, in case you get ill and don’t make it.”

While Ivermectin use remains a highly contentious issue, the largest trial to date on its use “found no statistically significant benefit from ivermectin but possible harm from the drug”.

The trial was carried out on 501 volunteers, with 250 randomly assigned to take Ivermectin, and the other 251 given placebos.

GroundUp reported :

Yet even this trial is too small to definitively settle questions about ivermectin’s safety and efficacy. Nevertheless, even if some future trial does find benefit, there is now little doubt that this is not a wonder drug; whatever benefits it may have are at most modest.

Kirsty said she had discussed the effectiveness of Ivermectin treatment with her 46-year-old brother, and the two had disagreed on the matter.

Ty and his wife did register for the vaccine, but he contracted COVID-19 in mid-July, and passed away after being treated in ICU at Waterfall City Hospital in Midrand.

“They (the US and UK) received the vaccine many months before us and none of them turned into zombies or are being tracked by whoever,” Kirsty says, pleading with unvaccinated South Africans to “look at the bigger picture” and get their jabs.

Despite what the I Am Legend misinformation brigade will tell you, she’s correct.

If you live in South Africa and you suffer any adverse side effects from the vaccine, there are protocols to follow in order to report them.

The National Institute For Communicable Diseases (NICD) has all the information here.

The Department of Health also has a call centre, which can be reached free of charge on the COVID-19 Public Hotline – 0800 029 999.

Selecting option three will divert your call to the safety desk where call centre staff can assist healthcare professionals or the public with questions post-vaccination.

A dedicated South African Health Products Regulatory Authority email address (adr@sahpra.org.za) and helpline (012 501 0311 on weekdays during office hours) are also available to assist.

[sources:news24&groundup]