CNN
By Miguel Marquez, Meridith Edwards and Ray Sanchez, CNN
Louie Michael and his wife, Pattie Bunch, were both hospitalized last month with Covid-19 in Springfield, Missouri.
An ambulance first had rushed her, with respiratory failure, to an emergency room one day; he was admitted the next night.
“You may not make it through the night,” she recalls a physician telling her.
Michael remembers the doctor asking him about possible intubation: “Do you want us to fight for you? Do you want us to do anything we can to save your life?”
Bunch, now recovery at home, says she felt helpless. “You have no control.”