NOTE: President Trump and several Republican-run states have a suit going to the Supreme Court to do away with the Affordable Care Act, which will also remove coverage for pre-existing conditions. The conditions like those in the article below would no longer be covered for how many thousand Americans?
Hospitals are reporting better-than-expected survival rates but worse-than-expected complications even after patients have technically recovered.
Patty Secrest woke from a three-week, medically induced coma in April, with her lungs taking back the role of breathing that had been left to a mechanical ventilator during her severe bout with COVID-19.
It meant survival, but it was only the beginning of the Stillwater woman’s recovery story.
Her first try at sitting up after regaining consciousness at Bethesda Hospital in St. Paul lasted 10 seconds, she said. “There were armrests, but I was so weak I couldn’t do it.” Continue reading.