Former football player's mission to get others vaccinated after almost dying of COVID
ABC News
36-year-old Justin Moon spent nearly 7 weeks on a ventilator.
As a former Division I college football player for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, Justin Moon faced many challenges on the field.
But more than a decade later, the 36-year-old step dad may have met his toughest opponent yet, when coronavirus left him fighting for his life earlier this summer just days before he was set to get his first dose of vaccine, he said.
“There's only one other step beyond where I was at, and that's cremation or going in your box,” Moon, who is still hospitalized but on the road to recovery, told ABC News. “I actually died for 4 minutes, and they paddled me and brought me back.”
Moon, of Guntersville, Alabama, was an athlete his entire life, and prior to his COVID diagnosis, he said he had no known underlying health conditions.
