Hello, I'm Nulum McGovrin on the BBC World Service, and this is BBC OS.

Conversations on Corona virus, getting COVID after vaccination. We want to share some different experiences of vaccinations.

We'll hear what might make you change your mind after initially refusing a COVID

job, but also have been vaccinated doesn't mean you won't become infected with the virus,

though it may affect your outcome.

I thank my lucky stars that this happened in this particular order

that I was vaccinated before I got COVID.

We'll think more about infection after vaccination in just a short while,

but we do know the steps out of this pandemic involve vaccines,

and one effect of vaccines is that fewer people end up in hospital.

The first shared experience we'll hear is from two people who are

hospitalized for a very long time with the virus. Nicky Wolf is from London. His

father Jeffrey was in hospital with coronavirus for more than 10 months.

42 year old Trinton Reeves from Chicago in the US spent four months in intensive care

after catching COVID-19. Trinton started by telling Ben James how it all began.

I was working on my garage and I just remember I was so tired you know I didn't want to be outside I didn't want to be around anyone I

wasn't like coughing or sick or anything it was just I was so tired and didn't want to do anything I

probably did have a cold but I just thought it was, you know, normal.

But what point then did you get so bad you had to go to hospital?

The point where I couldn't get out of bed.

I told my mom like, I need to go to the hospital.

I don't remember walking into the hospital. I just remember walking. It was like a long

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