Santa Ana Police Department sergeant recounts near-death experience with COVID-19
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McCarthy says his lungs collapsed and doctors felt like they were losing him.
McCarthy spent the holidays in the ICU.
He missed his daughter s birthday, Christmas, New Year s, his wife s birthday.
He believes he contracted the virus while out on a call at a homeless encampment. He had no idea COVID would take him down within days. Doctors moved him to a ventilator, intubating him just to keep oxygen flowing through his battered lungs.
A Santa Ana Police Department sergeant is back at home with his family after spending 52 days in the ICU with the coronavirus.