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Update on David Lat and his fight against Covid-19 https://www.democraticunderground.com/1002131188
March 17th: Posted tweet from David Lat (44 year old) and his thoughts on living with Covid-19see this link - https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213118890
March 23rd
avid Lat remains in critical condition, on a ventilator and sedated inside a Manhattan hospital, as doctors and his family wait to see over the next several days if the “very experimental” drug therapy he has been given to help him fight the coronavirus will work.
Link to tweet
https://bit.ly/2xic224
David Lat remains in critical condition, on a ventilator and sedated inside a Manhattan hospital, as doctors and his family wait to see over the next several days if the “very experimental” drug therapy he has been given to help him fight the coronavirus will work, said his husband on Monday afternoon.
“We won’t know for a few more days, whether he’s going to get better—whether this stuff [the drug therapy] is working or not,” said his husband of four and a half years, Zachary Baron Shemtob, in a phone interview.
“We’re hanging in there,” he said. “We’re just waiting and hoping.”
The initial sedation Lat was given early on Saturday, as he was put on a potentially life-saving ventilator because his oxygen levels had dropped, did not keep Lat from waking up on Saturday, “immediately opening his eyes, demanding a pen and paper and starting to write down questions, to get to the bottom of everything,” Shemtob said Monday.
“It was just David being David. It wasn’t that he was agitated, but, you know, he was curious and inquisitive,” Shemtob said. “He just wanted to be his inquisitive journalist self. It was shortly after being put on the ventilator.”
Lat, the founder of the legal blog Above the Law and now a widely recognized legal recruiter who still writes columns for Above the Law, has been hospitalized at NYU Langone Hospital since March 16 due to a COVID-19 infection. For more than a week before being admitted to the hospital, Lat, 44, had experienced intermittent fevers, joint aches, chills, fatigue and coughing. Labored breathing set in by March 15, forcing him to go to his nearest emergency room to seek a coronavirus test.
Shemtob said he was told about his husband waking up Saturday, despite being under sedation, by an attending nurse at the hospital. The nursing staff then asked Lat to go back and get more rest, Shemtob explained. Shortly after that, medical staff gave him more sedation, and Lat has been mostly sedated since then.
“You want to let the ventilator do its work,” Shemtob said, basing his knowledge on what doctors and nursing staff have told him.
“They want to use the ventilator for everything, sort of,” continued Shemtob, who is a former clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge Robert Sack and a former associate at Cooley.
Lat went from receiving oxygen and being in stable condition last week at NYU Langone, as he posted Twitter threads about his coronavirus battle that he titled “Above the Hospital Bed,” to being put on a ventilator and placed in an intensive care unit late Friday night or early Saturday.
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“We won’t know for a few more days, whether he’s going to get better—whether this stuff [the drug therapy] is working or not,” said his husband of four and a half years, Zachary Baron Shemtob, in a phone interview.
“We’re hanging in there,” he said. “We’re just waiting and hoping.”
The initial sedation Lat was given early on Saturday, as he was put on a potentially life-saving ventilator because his oxygen levels had dropped, did not keep Lat from waking up on Saturday, “immediately opening his eyes, demanding a pen and paper and starting to write down questions, to get to the bottom of everything,” Shemtob said Monday.
“It was just David being David. It wasn’t that he was agitated, but, you know, he was curious and inquisitive,” Shemtob said. “He just wanted to be his inquisitive journalist self. It was shortly after being put on the ventilator.”
Lat, the founder of the legal blog Above the Law and now a widely recognized legal recruiter who still writes columns for Above the Law, has been hospitalized at NYU Langone Hospital since March 16 due to a COVID-19 infection. For more than a week before being admitted to the hospital, Lat, 44, had experienced intermittent fevers, joint aches, chills, fatigue and coughing. Labored breathing set in by March 15, forcing him to go to his nearest emergency room to seek a coronavirus test.
Shemtob said he was told about his husband waking up Saturday, despite being under sedation, by an attending nurse at the hospital. The nursing staff then asked Lat to go back and get more rest, Shemtob explained. Shortly after that, medical staff gave him more sedation, and Lat has been mostly sedated since then.
“You want to let the ventilator do its work,” Shemtob said, basing his knowledge on what doctors and nursing staff have told him.
“They want to use the ventilator for everything, sort of,” continued Shemtob, who is a former clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge Robert Sack and a former associate at Cooley.
Lat went from receiving oxygen and being in stable condition last week at NYU Langone, as he posted Twitter threads about his coronavirus battle that he titled “Above the Hospital Bed,” to being put on a ventilator and placed in an intensive care unit late Friday night or early Saturday.
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This is so sad. This man is only 44 years old - the prime of his life. Send up a prayer for him.
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