Brian Karnes and wife Rebekah, who run a family medicine clinic, along with their five daughters, contracted COVID-19 in March.

Rebekah Karnes said she and her husband, who is on a ventilator right now and has come close to dying during his fight with the virus, were not vaccinated when they contracted it.

A week after the family contracted COVID-19, he was the one in the ICU.

“His lungs were failing, and oxygenation just wasn’t holding up,” Rebekah Karnes said.

Brian Karnes had to go on a treatment called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).

He had a wake-up moment in the hospital where he came back to consciousness, his wife said.

Rebekah Karnes said COVID-19 wreaked havoc on his lungs, which no longer inflate on their own.

Brian Karnes runs a clinic in Norman, Oklahoma, which is where his wife works.

“We’re in a hard spot,” Rebekah Karnes said.

Dykes contracted COVID-19 in March and then, so did the rest of his family.