Vet Dead in Texas - FROM A F'IN GALLSTONE! No ICU beds available.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-purple-heart-vet-who-fought-in-afgha...

The ripple effects of vaccine hesitancy. Maybe sometimes it isn't all about you. This is absolutely sickening. I'm starting to get really pissed.

Purple Heart vet Daniel Wilkinson waited seven hours for an ICU bed in Texas before he died.

"He served two deployments over in Afghanistan, came home with a Purple Heart, and it was a gallstone that took him out," his mom said.

Daniel Wilkinson died of gallstone pancreatitis, a condition that causes pancreatic inflammation and can get serious if not immediately untreated. Wilkinson waited seven hours for an ICU bed in Texas before he died, according to KPRC, a local NBC affiliate.

Wilkinson's mom, Michelle Puget, took him to the emergency room in Texas on Saturday, where a doctor told him he'd need to have a gallstone removed in the ICU.

"The doctor was trying to find him an ICU bed," Puget told KPRC. "He said, 'We have been refused so far.' He said, 'We have called Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Colorado.'"

After hours of hospital staff trying desperately to find Wilkinson, a Purple Heart vet, an ICU, the family heard that another hospital in Texas had a bed he could occupy. They arranged plans to bring him to that hospital by helicopter.

But by that point, Wilkinson's organs began shutting down, KPRC reported.