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Local COVID-19 survivor, on ventilator for weeks, shares recovery story February 8, 2021 at 4:05 PM EST - Updated February 8 at 4:05 PM
A local COVID-19 survivor says we can t let our guard down.
Jim Coffey spent more than two weeks on a ventilator. This is not the frickin’ flu. Don’t mess with it, Coffey said. It’s amazing how this stuff affects you.
Coffey was admitted to Cleveland Clinic North on Jan. 3 with COVID-related shortness of breath.
Three days later, he had to be put on a ventilator. And all the alarm bells went off, and all the doctors and nurses were around me, Coffey said.