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A frustrated Sydney doctor has revealed the terrifying reality of Covid-19 while urging Australians that 'going to the pub' isn't the reason they should get jabbed.
Dr Miriam Levy, Chair of the medical staff council at Liverpool Hospital, claimed Australia's focus on vaccination to bring residents out of lockdowns was 'misguided'.
She said the focus of vaccinations should be to stop people becoming seriously ill, and showed a terrifying picture of lungs clouded up by the virus.
'Vaccination is about preventing us dying,' Dr Levy told Carrie Bickmore on The Project on Wednesday.
Dr Levy explained to The Project the lungs of a Covid-19 patient (pictured) were similar to those of a 'drowning person'
Dr Levy, who works at a Sydney hospital hit hardest by Covid-19, pleaded with Australians who are still hesitant to get the jab to consider it purely for their health.
Showing a set of X-ray images of the lungs of a healthy person and the other from a Covid patient, the doctor explained the alarming difference between the two.
'A chest X-ray in Covid is a drowning person,' she said.
'What you can see, all those blotches, are pus and fluid pouring into the lungs. That is what drowning is like, and that's why people are gasping for breath.
'So the pneumonia of Covid can be absolutely catastrophic.'
Dr Levy then stressed people should get jabbed, not to get out of lockdown, but out of concern for health implications 'because the illness is terrible'.
She also said people should be worried about the long-term effects of the virus such as long Covid, where symptoms last for months after the initial infection leaves the body - leaving some with permanent changes to their brains.
Covid-19, the disease caused by the new strain of coronavirus, can
