Update on David Lat: After 17 days (Including being on a ventilator), he's soon to be discharged

[iluvtennis]

David Lat@DavidLat·Apr 1
Not an #AprilFoolsDay Joke: after 17 days at @nyulangone, including 6 days on a ventilator, I’m being discharged! Here’s my final hospital bed selfie. #coronavirus #COVID19 #coronaboy #LatsCovid19Journal

Link to tweet

Article: David Lat, Eyeing Hospital Discharge, Talks About His Battle and Donating Blood to COVID-19 Research
https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/04/01/how-grateful-david-lat-eyeing-hospital-discharge-is-contributing-to-covid-19-research/?slreturn=20200305191816

“I ended up receiving an IL-6 inhibitor called Kevzara, a combo of the antimalarial drug called hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic called azithromycin, an IL-6 inhibitor called Tocilizumab, an IL-6 inhibitor called Clazakizumab, and an antiviral called Remdesivir,” he said.

But asked whether the NYU Langone physicians have told him that the drug therapies used had helped him turn the corner and survive, Lat said that they hadn’t said that—because they themselves don’t know.

original post: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213118890

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So happy he has is on the road to recovery and soon to be discharged.

[Hoyt]

1. Saw that. Will be interested to see what he says about his treatment and trump's wonder drugs

Lat was put on a couple of them shortly after he was put on a ventilator.

[iluvtennis]

2. excerpt from the linked article...

“I ended up receiving an IL-6 inhibitor called Kevzara, a combo of the antimalarial drug called hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic called azithromycin, an IL-6 inhibitor called Tocilizumab, an IL-6 inhibitor called Clazakizumab, and an antiviral called Remdesivir,” he said.

But asked whether the NYU Langone physicians have told him that the drug therapies used had helped him turn the corner and survive, Lat said that they hadn’t said that—because they themselves don’t know.

[Hoyt]

3. Whoops. Missed that. Just glad to see he's out.

Hope some of docs are interviewed for their impressions. Apparently, some of them believed they might help. But it sounded like Lat was in really bad shape initially.

[iluvtennis]

4. + agree.