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COVID-19 was killing him. How a last-resort intervention brought this Toronto man back from the brink

from The Star

COVID-19 was killing him. How a last-resort intervention brought this Toronto man back from the brink The Star The phone call Irena Veronese was dreading came on a chilly spring evening. Her 54-year-old husband, Mladen, was in intensive care at St. Michael’s Hospital, hooked up to a ventilator, getting sicker and sicker with COVID-19. Gently, the nurse explained they were running out of treatment options: the ventilator was set to its maximum levels; drugs paralyzed his body to ensure any available oxygen would go to his brain and organs; his kidneys were shutting down. READ MORE

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