Courtesy Laura Lyons Well, folks, I caught the COVID. And not just any type of COVID, mind you. The really scary kind. The kind that kills people. But somehow, after 99 days in a medically induced coma in ICU on a mechanical ventilator, I lived to tell uncomfortable jokes about […]
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9 (Kinda) Hilarious Lessons I Learned From 99 Days on a COVID Ventilator
Well, folks, I caught the COVID. And not just any type of COVID, mind you. The really scary kind. The kind that kills people. But somehow, after 99 days in a medically induced coma in ICU on a mechanical ventilator, I lived to tell uncomfortable jokes about it. Luckily, dark […]
Roswell Fire Chief Off Ventilator After Fighting Coronavirus
ROSWELL, GA — Roswell Fire Chief Ricky Burnette is no longer on a ventilator and is awake after he contracted the coronavirus, his daughter said this week. Amanda Burnette posted to her Facebook page Wednesday that her dad is, “no longer on the ventilator, he is breathing on his own […]
Kremlin critic and Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny on ventilator after suspected poisoning
Alexey Navalny, a fierce Kremlin critic and key figure in the opposition to Russian leadership, was unconscious and on a ventilator Thursday after an alleged poisoning his allies believe was linked to his political stance. The 44-year-old initially fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from Tomsk, a city […]
Czech volunteers develop functioning lung ventilator in days
PRAGUE (AP) — Tomas Kapler knew nothing about ventilators — he’s an online business consultant, not an engineer or a medical technician. But when he saw that shortages of the vital machines had imperiled critically ill COVID-19 patients in northern Italy, he was moved to action. “It was a disturbing […]