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Originally Posted by O.city
How’s your coworker doing? Meant to ask yesterday
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The good news is he's made enough progress to avoid the ventilator for now. He called me yesterday and it was pretty emotional talking to him. He's 3 weeks in the hospital and is showing some improvement in pulmonary function and has rebounded the past 3 days. Doctors are saying if they can get someone out to 14 days of treatment in the hospital, without using a ventilator, they are seeing many patients able to rebound around the 2 week mark. Many of the older or sicker patients can't make it that long fighting though. The doctor says he's lucky he was in such good shape to be able to fight this that long and they are also thinking the COVID plasma helped him too. Long term pulmonary damage is still very likely for him, but this being so new, it's hard to understand if the body can repair that tissue over time. The other concerns they are seeing is this migrating into other organs weeks later, causing other problems and eventually organ failure. Many of the severe cases who end up living are in the 44-60 year age range.
He's likely another week in the hospital and then probably a few weeks of rehab. He's a PTA so he started supine exercises himself in the bed this week.
Thank you for asking.