Paul Melvin

Wow, really terrible news. SARS-CoV-2 has now killed both of the last two people in the United States using an iron lung: • Paul Alexander (78) passed away on March 11, 2024, after receiving an infection in February 2024. • Martha Lillard (also 78) passed away on June 26, 2026, from Long COVID complications. 143 combined years spent using the best medical tools at our disposal and countless resources to keep both of these folks alive, all wasted and both lives utterly and willfully discarded because healthcare professionals refuse to perform one of the most basic functions of their job — wearing quality PPE and preventing the spread of disease to “do no harm.” A new research article just published in May found that, on average, those who died from COVID-19 could be expected to live for another 4.4 years (male) to 4.8 years (female) if they had not been infected. They also estimated that 28% of those who died over the age of 65 would have survived five years or more without the infection: journals.plos.org/plosone/ar… News article about Martha Lillard: kfor.com/news/local/oklahoma… Her obituary, which directly lists the cause of death as Long COVID: dignitymemorial.com/obituari…