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CNN A New York man who was left in a medically induced coma for a month after contracting the novel Coronavirus Covid-19 spent five months searching for 116 healthcare workers who helped save his life, the report said.
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Jeff Gerson was seriously ill with 103 fever, shortness of breath and cough back in March and was soon placed on a ventilator.
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When he woke up he thanked all the people who wanted to do it who helped him escape, but did not realize it would be 116 people.
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CNN reports that Covid-1 spent a month in a therapeutic coma after the illness that started the epidemic.
Jeff Gerson spent five months at NYU Langone Tissue Hospital becoming 116 healthcare professionals who helped save his life.
“I feel tremendously grateful and lucky right now,” Gersen told CNN. “If there’s a story, it’s not necessarily that I survived, but these people saved my life. I really felt the need to find them, take their names and thank them.”
In March, Jersen was placed on a ventilator the day after he was shown to the hospital with 103 fever, shortness of breath and cough. He tracked through insurance documents and MYChart, and reached out to workers he knew to help track the rest of the caregivers.
“Except for the nurses I talk to directly, I didn’t really get a chance to say thank you to anyone. It reduced my emotional recovery to zero.” “Here I am surviving, I cry out with joy every morning, and I feel a debt of gratitude to these people with whom I can’t even talk because they don’t come to my room.”
At least 15.3 million Americans have contracted COVID-19 with more than 289,000 deaths. The influx of COVID-19 patients has strained the entire U.S. health system. On Wednesday, the Covid Trekking Project Report Record 106,688 COVID-19 patients in U.S. hospitals.
Many healthcare workers, especially those who worked in hotspots during the epidemic, said they felt burned by the burden of the case, but also felt a moral obligation to provide the best care and work for their patients.
Banner University Medical Center Phoenix pulmonologist and critical care intuitionist Dr. Sandra Tille told Business Insider during the case growth in Arizona in June that she works about 90 hours a week.
In Gerson’s case, healthcare workers also did everything they could to help him, even though he fell ill early in the epidemic, knowing little about how to best treat the virus.
Dr. Louis Angel, a pulmonologist and complex care specialist who was one of Gerson’s doctors, told CNN that while he was just doing his job, Gerson’s gestures made sense to him.
Angel said, “You see he did a remarkable job and someone who will very likely die in the hospital, he is fully recovered, and then he is able to say thank you, it makes a lot of sense to us,” Angel said.
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