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Q1 Module 2 Lesson 3
Q1 Module 2 Lesson 3
Vargas
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Activity 10.
Choose one Covid-19 patient story where he or she recalled his or her
personal experience with corona virus and the care he or she received from his or
her loved ones. Summarize it and share what is your favorite part of the story? Why?
James Anthony V. Vargas
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What would you change in the story? Why would you make that change?
races that had him scrambling over walls and under barbed wire, lugging heavy objects,
and traversing monkey bars and rings. On a typical day, he’d work in his family’s retail
furniture business, then box and lift weights, before heading to his Washington, D.C.,
Ayyad was on a ventilator at The Johns Hopkins Hospital for 25 days and lost more than
60 pounds during his ordeal. His doctors say his physical fitness, positive attitude and
the support of friends and family are helping him recover from the disease and the toll of
long-term ventilation.
Discharged on April 22, Ayyad still has a blood clot in his left arm and damage to his
heart and lungs — all complications of COVID-19. But he is gradually putting on weight
“He seems to be making a great recovery,” says Sandra Zaeh, M.D., who treated Ayyad
in the hospital and continues to care for him as part of a follow-up team called PACT, for
Post-Acute COVID Team. On March 11, Ayyad, the fourth of nine children and the oldest
son, began experiencing flu-like symptoms, including a mild fever. By March 14, he was
struggling to catch his breath and so weak he couldn’t drive himself to a hospital, says
his friend Deena Nasr, a physician assistant at George Washington University Hospital.
She convinced him to take an Uber to Sibley Memorial Hospital, which he did the
following day.
James Anthony V. Vargas
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There, he tested positive for both COVID-19 and influenza A, Ayyad became the
hospital’s third COVID-19 patient and the first to be placed on a ventilator, says Natalie
West, M.D., M.H.S., the pulmonary specialist who admitted him. Unable to speak
A few days later, he transferred to a COVID-19 unit in the hospital. Nurses celebrated
My favorite part of the story was how the nurses take care of Ayyad even though
the symptom of covid-19 is within his body. They give him their full support and
love especially when the time that he needed someone. There’s nothing to change
in the story because it was delivered well and almost all the scenarios that