One of the first in the Bay Area to face the full wrath of the coronavirus.
But numbers and statistics don t even begin to do justice to the story of Mike Arevalo s survival. I went to the gates of hell and came back, he told us when he finally got out of the hospital in May.
He still doesn t know exactly where he got coronavirus in March, but he assumes he contracted it on the job as a California Lottery representative. This was before we knew how to really protect ourselves from the virus: back then, there was no masking, distancing or temperature checks.