Arkansas Woman Receives Bill For Almost $1 Million Following COVID-19 Hospitalization

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 Arkansas Woman Receives Bill For Almost $1 Million Following COVID-19 Hospitalization

#Socialites check this out, a woman that was hospitalized for COVID-19 has now been left with a close to a seven-figure medical bill!

Shenita Russie, who is 42, caught the virus from her job! According to Newsweek, she was a mobile respiratory therapist in Boston where she would help COVID patients at the beginning of the pandemic. Once she got the virus she was hospitalized for a month, during that month she was put into a medically-induced coma.

“The bills? They are incredible,” she shared, “I mean it was close to a million dollars just for how sick I was on life support.”

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After being in the hospital for a month she then returned to Little Rock to be closer to her family because she was dealing with the after-effects of the disease.

She explained that she was receiving bills with a cost so high because after Covid she was having issues with being able to walk again. She adds that she needed expert help in showing her how to walk and cardiologist consultants.

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As of right now her payments are still being settled but Shenita did have a few more words because at the time the vaccine was not available, so now she is encouraging others to take the steps to get vaccinated so they won’t have to be in a situation like her.

 

KALININGRAD, RUSSIA – DECEMBER 4, 2020: A nurse prepares to give a serviceman of the Russian Navy’s Baltic Fleet the Russian Sputnik V vaccine during COVID-19 vaccination. Vitaly Nevar/TASS (Photo by Vitaly NevarTASS via Getty Images)
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) tweeted this weekend, “Those of us who are vaccinated will pay the increased costs to the healthcare system for the unvaccinated,”
#Socialites whether you are vaccinated or not, do you think it’s fair for anyone to have to pay almost a $1 million for health?

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