After surviving as St. Joseph’s Medical Center’s first patient with COVID-19 in 2020, Gregg Garfield says he’s been handed a second chance to live.
After surviving COVID-19 as St. Joseph’s Medical Center’s first patient with coronavirus, Gregg Garfield says he’s been handed a second chance to live.
In March 2020, Garfield was part of a 13-group ski trip in Italy where everyone got COVID-19. Days after his return, the 57-year-old recalled calling 911 when his symptoms escalated and prevented him from breathing.“There were a lot of people including doctors that wouldn’t have conversations with me because they had a difference in opinion of what happened. That was tough for me to handle,” Garfield said.Sign up for NBC LA newsletters.
He said that with little information about his health, he did his best to remain calm. That’s when he was notified that he had to be placed into a medically induced coma or he was not going to survive. “When he called me to tell me he was going to be intubated and going off like a few days, I said, ‘You’re going to be fine,’ and that was all I knew. I felt confused but optimistic,” Garfield’s partner, AJ Johnson, said.Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime, entertainment, weather, schools, COVID, cost of living and more. Here's your go-to source for today's LA news.
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