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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />This story was originally posted on April 15, 2020 by Michigan Medicine | Written by: Jordyn Imhoff <br />http://bit.ly/3rnweWS<br /><br />FIND the model and photographer created this video on Pexels:<br />https://bit.ly/3aqnKYj<br /><br />SUBSCRIBE to our channel:<br />http://bit.ly/3pOwYUZ
