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Covid 19 coronavirus: 32 days on a ventilator - one patient's fight to breathe again

By Pam Belluck
New York Times·
14 mins to read
Covid 19 coronavirus: 32 days on a ventilator - one patient's fight to breathe again
Covid 19 coronavirus: 32 days on a ventilator - one patient's fight to breathe again

Jim Bello, 49 and healthy, fell gravely ill, highlighting agonising mysteries of the coronavirus. Doctors' relentless efforts to save him was a roller-coaster of devastating and triumphant twists.

"Is he going to make it?" Kim Bello asked, clutching her phone, alone in her yard.

She had slipped outside so her

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