David Lat, Eyeing Hospital Discharge, Talks About His Battle and Donating Blood to COVID-19 Research
"I don't think I've fully wrapped my head—and heart—around the enormity of what I've just been through," he said during his first interview since returning to stable condition, conducted via direct messaging on Twitter. "And I'm so grateful to be alive."
April 01, 2020 at 10:47 AM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
Thirteen days ago, David Lat lay on a stark white hospital bed in Manhattan, getting oxygen 24 hours a day because his breathing had grown so labored. And he dared not look ahead too much, he said, as he faced up to his battle with a severe COVID-19 infection.
"I don't know that I'm getting any worse," he said by cellphone on March 18, speaking about his illness. "And at this point," he said, "I'll take it."
Lat, the founder of the legal blog Above the Law, did not know that just two days later he would be rendered unconscious by medical staff, suddenly intubated, and hooked up to a life-preserving ventilator for the next week, as he fought to survive, and as doctors administered to him novel drug therapies that they hoped would work.
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