Edgar Ramirez Shares Devastating Open Letter Detailing How COVID-19 Has Affected His Family

Edgar Ramirez has released a devastating open letter in which he details the way COVID-19 has affected his family in the last couple months.

The 44-year-old Jungle Cruise actor says his aunt and uncle both died over the weekend after they recently contracted the virus. Several other family members and friends have died from the virus in the past couple months as well.

“I beg you to please read this post carefully 🙏🏽. It is the most painful and the most intimate thing I have had to publish in my life, but I think it is important to share it,” Edgar captioned his open letter on Instagram.

He continued, “At times I feel like it is a nightmare from which I am going to wake up, but I know it is not. That this is as real as the air that at this moment it is difficult for me to breathe.”

Edgar added, “In my instagram feed, right next to this post is an interview I had with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States, in which we discussed vital information on how to deal with COVID 19 and the urgent need to get vaccinated, especially those of us who are lucky enough to access to a vaccine. No one who has access to a vaccine should die from COVID 19. Please read this information, watch the interview and please, please share it.”

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Unfortunately the miracle didn’t happen.

After a gruesome agony my aunt Lucy died on Saturday.

And after being stabilized for a few days and in only a matter of hours, my uncle Guillermo collapsed and died on Sunday.

In less than 24 hours, COVID had taken both of their lives. We had not yet collected my aunt’s ashes when we were due to incinerate my uncle’s body.

Then on Monday, still unable to process the shock and the horror from the weekend, we woke up to the news that my Aunt Nidia’s brother in law, Rafael, a dear friend, had also died after months battling with COVID complications.

They all died exactly a month and two days after COVID had taken the life of my grandmother Bertha and 4 months since it took the life of my Venezuelan agent and dear friend Laureano.

My heart can’t just take more pain. I am sad, I am frustrated, I am devastated. It’s been weeks and weeks of my family being played, tortured and jerked around by this cruel, treacherous and violent disease which mercilessly ended up killing them all. I can’t stand this void in my chest, this metallic taste in my mouth, this crippling headache that doesn’t seem to soothe.

These waves of hopelessness that I refuse to let take root in my soul.

None of them had been vaccinated. None had access to a vaccine in Venezuela. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of vaccines are being thrown away in the United States because a large number of people don’t want them. It breaks my heart that so many people in this country are willing to snub the very vaccine my family would have taken in an instant.

As my family and millions of people go through the nightmare of losing their loved ones because there aren’t enough vaccines in the rest of the world, my hope is that anyone who can get vaccinated, do so today.

Don’t do it for yourself. Do it to protect those who are vulnerable, those with immune deficiencies, and all others who can get very sick if infected.

What everyone agrees on is that those who are unvaccinated can carry more of the lethal virus, and can transmit it faster and to more people, than those who got a vaccine.

To get a vaccine is an act of compassion.

I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States, regarding COVID-19 and the COVID-19 vaccine.

It was a powerful conversation, full of vital information. Just go to my Instagram feed and you’ll find it next to this post subtitled into Spanish. I hope you get a chance to watch it and share it in your socials.

I also hope this interview can serve as a starting point for a conversation with the people in your life who are hesitant about getting vaccinated. I respectfully invite you to just have the conversation.

Lastly, I encourage you all to follow science and truthful information, and please, please, PLEASE…If you can, GET VACCINATED, so you can help save those around you.