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For many, beating coronavirus is just the beginning: Here's what post-COVID rehab looks like

from Houston Chronicle

For many, beating coronavirus is just the beginning: Here's what post-COVID rehab looks like Houston Chronicle Robert Martinez couldn't take a deep breath on March 26. The next morning, he was taken to the hospital and tested positive for COVID-19. He spent the next several weeks in critical care in the intensive care unit at HCA Houston Hospital in Tomball. Martinez, 62, is a success story — a recovery from the novel coronavirus. But the weeks in a hospital bed and on a ventilator left his body with considerable damage, both internally and externally. He had no control over his left hand, which is his dominant one; he lost considerable muscle mass; and he had trouble remembering things. He knew if he tried to go home right away after being discharged, he "would be in trouble." READ MORE

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