A fit and healthy 42-year-old father with a love of rock climbing and bodybuilding sent a message to his twin sister saying 'don't let them give up on me' shortly before he died after contracting coronavirus.
John Eyers, a construction expert from Southport, Merseyside, had been climbing the Welsh mountains and wild camping one month before his death in July, which came exactly four weeks after he tested positive.
His twin sister Jenny McCann from London said he was the 'fittest, healthiest person I know' and had thought he would only have a 'mild illness' if he contracted coronavirus, adding that he had a 'belief in his own immortality'. Mrs McCann said that Mr Eyers had 'no underlying health conditions' but did also state that he had asthma.
Before going onto a ventilator in hospital, Mr Eyers told his consultant that he wished he had been vaccinated - and died in intensive care after suffering from an infection and organ failure, leaving behind a daughter aged 19.
Mrs McCann revealed the last text she received from her twin brother before he was induced into a coma, sent on July 11, read: 'Don’t let them give up on me.'
Mr Eyers' condition got progressively worse and, on the morning of July 27, his family was told he was dying.
He died later that day, moments before his family arrived at his bedside.
John Eyers, 42, had been climbing the Welsh mountains and wild camping one month before his death from Covid in July this year
Before going onto a ventilator in hospital, Mr Eyers told his consultant that he wished he had been vaccinated, his sister said
In May, his sister Jenny McCann had tweeted a selfie after getting her first jab, saying: 'Full on tears after getting Covid jab'
Mrs McCann, of Pinner, North West London, who got her first vaccine jab on May 10, described her brother as a 'staunch anti-vaxxer'. She added that the family had 'all fallen out with him over his stance'.
The mother-of-two posted a series of tweets about Mr Eyers in August, a week after he died, saying: 'My 42-year-old old twin brother died in ITU (intensive treatment unit) of Covid-19 last week. He died exactly four weeks after testing positive.
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Matthew Keenan told friends that he 'wished he had his jab' after he was hospitalised at Bradford Royal Infirmary and placed in an induced coma in a bid to save his life just two weeks ago.
Dr Leanne Cheyne, a respiratory consultant at the hospital, shared a photo of him in an oxygen mask and hooked up to a ventilator as he fought for his life.
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'He was the fittest, healthiest person I know. He was climbing Welsh mountains and wild camping four weeks before his death. The only pre-existing health condition he had was the belief in his own immortality.
'He thought if he contracted Covid-19 he would be OK. He thought he would have a mild illness. He didn't want to put a vaccine on his body. His was pumped full of every drug in the hospital. They threw everything at him.
'But eventually the bedfellow of Covid-19, infection and organ failure, claimed his life. Before he was ventilated he told his consultant that he wished he had been vaccinated. That he wished he had listened. His death is a tragedy.
'It shouldn't have happened. He leaves a mum and dad, a sister (me), and a 19-year-old daughter. My two children have lost their fun uncle. The Uncle who would always play with them.
'The uncle that dressed up as
