Former <i>Signal Tribune</i> Owner/Publisher Neena Strichart -- Fully Vaccinated -- Becomes Serious "Breakthrough" Case: COVID Puts Her In ICU For Nearly Three Weeks Fighting To Breathe; She's Now In Rehab Working To Recover</a>

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Former Signal Tribune Owner/Publisher Neena Strichart -- Fully Vaccinated -- Becomes Serious "Breakthrough" Case: COVID Puts Her In ICU For Nearly Three Weeks Fighting To Breathe; She's Now In Rehab Working To Recover

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(Aug. 7, 2021, 7:20 p.m.) For days, she's put bits and pieces on Facebook but LBREPORT.com declined to report it without her explicit consent. Now we can report the following. Neena Strichart, the beloved former owner/publisher of the Signal Tribune has let us say this much:

Despite being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Ms. Strichart has become a sobering example of a "breakthrough" case, attacked by the virus which sent her into in an ICU for nearly three weeks fighting to breathe. Ms. Strichart is now in a rehabilitation facility hoping to regain what she's lost.

The experience hasn't turned Ms. Strichart into an anti-vaxer. To the contrary, she says she'd be dead if she hadn't had some vaccination protection...and she urges everyone to get vaccinated. On Aug 3, she put the graphic below on her Facebook page.

Neena Strichart Aug. 3 Facebook image.

Ms. Strichart says her doctors haven't said if she had the Delta variant but says she'll tell all about COVID from the inside in an upcoming multi-part column exclusive to LBREPORT.com.

We urge our readers to keep Ms. Strichart in their prayers and on her Facebook page offer their wishes for her full and complete recovery.