First Coronavirus (COVID) Patient at Michigan Medicine also Had Previous Double Lung Transplant
- 3 years ago
The coronavirus hit almost an entire Michigan family, including a double lung transplant recipient and father of three who was one of the first patient in Michigan.
Paul DeWyse, his wife and three daughters hadn’t discussed the coronavirus, and never expected it to start sweeping across the U.S. as it did a few weeks later. “When I was feeling sick, there were still so few people that had the virus. All I had really known about it was what I heard on the news about how it was affecting China,” he says.
On March 10, the day after he was diagnosed, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer reported the state’s two first COVID-19 cases and declared a state of emergency. DeWyse started to hear himself referred to as a “Wayne County man with a history of domestic travel” in media reports.
The treatment included different antibiotics delivered intravenously and pain killers for the body aches. To DeWyse’s surprise, he didn’t have any shortness of breath. He never needed a ventilator.
After getting discharged, Lyu continued to FaceTime DeWyse every few days to see how he was feeling and was delighted to find he made a full recovery.
This story was originally posted on April 15, 2020 by Michigan Medicine | Written by: Jordyn Imhoff
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Paul DeWyse, his wife and three daughters hadn’t discussed the coronavirus, and never expected it to start sweeping across the U.S. as it did a few weeks later. “When I was feeling sick, there were still so few people that had the virus. All I had really known about it was what I heard on the news about how it was affecting China,” he says.
On March 10, the day after he was diagnosed, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer reported the state’s two first COVID-19 cases and declared a state of emergency. DeWyse started to hear himself referred to as a “Wayne County man with a history of domestic travel” in media reports.
The treatment included different antibiotics delivered intravenously and pain killers for the body aches. To DeWyse’s surprise, he didn’t have any shortness of breath. He never needed a ventilator.
After getting discharged, Lyu continued to FaceTime DeWyse every few days to see how he was feeling and was delighted to find he made a full recovery.
This story was originally posted on April 15, 2020 by Michigan Medicine | Written by: Jordyn Imhoff
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