‘Get Vaccinated, Don't Screw Around': Colorado Man Who Got COVID Twice Describes Months Spent Recovering In Hospital

By Rick Sallinger, CBS Denver:

GOLDEN, Colo. (CBS4)– This past weekend more than 90 people were admitted to Colorado hospitals for COVID-19. That brings the total hospitalized in the state to nearly 800 people. That count no longer includes Bill Phillips of Golden. He was released last week after months of hospitalization.

“I feel very lucky to be alive, like I have a second chance at life,” he told CBS4’s Rick Sallinger.

Phillips didn’t think he needed to be vaccinated. A fitness coach, he had COVID-19 once — and the antibodies that come with it — then it hit him again.

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