Michigan Medicine’s first COVID patient reflects on his experience one year later
‘Now, I’m immunocompromised and in the hospital with COVID-19,’ recalls Paul DeWyse
Meredith Bruckner, Community News Producer, All About Ann Arbor
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Wayne County resident Paul DeWyse was Michigan Medicine s first confirmed COVID patient. (Michigan Medicine)
ANN ARBOR – Paul DeWyse was known only to the public as “Wayne County man with history of domestic travel” after he became Michigan Medicine’s first confirmed COVID patient last March.
The Livonia man, who had received a double lung transplant in 2018, said he was told in the hospital that there was a 99.9% chance he didn’t have the virus that was rapidly spreading across the world. When his test came back positive for COVID-19, doctors were stumped.
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