This guy's experience with Covid-19 should make anyone think twice about attending social gatherings [View all]

even with a mask on. Note: The type of large event he and his wife attended prior to him getting sick is not mentioned, but it sounds like a wedding reception so I wonder if he had his mask off to eat & drink?

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2020/11/the-miracles-of-6k-an-upstate-medical-team-gave-him-back-his-breath-and-hope.html

Syracuse, N.Y. — Joanna Jenkins pulled the van up to the emergency entrance at Upstate Medical University.

You are such a blessing in my life, her husband, Greg, told her. “I love you,” he said.

Then he got out and walked himself into the emergency room, alone.

It was Oct. 23. Greg Jenkins, 58, had been battling the coronavirus for more than two weeks. He had gone to the hospital in Utica, near where the couple live, twice already. They sent him home, where he got worse.

His fever was 103 for 11 days. It became harder and harder to breathe. By the time they decided to drive to Syracuse, Greg would stop breathing every time he dozed off. He could not stand up long enough to brush his teeth. He stopped eating.

The man who climbed trees every fall to hunt and spent his days singing to seniors in nursing homes could not get enough air to utter a whole sentence.

Jenkins was at Upstate for two weeks. His lung collapsed days after he arrived. He had around-the-clock care and a cocktail of drugs: Remdesivir, plasma, steroids and antibiotics.

Jenkins is a coronavirus survivor, counted in the “win” column among the 9,970 in Oneida and Onondaga counties who have battled the virus and are considered recovered.

But weeks after he left the hospital, he still cannot take a full breath. Just walking up the stairs or having a conversation is exhausting. He has no idea when, or if, he’ll be able to sing again.