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Covid Just Killed The Last Person Living In An Iron Lung (www.donotpanic.news)

submitted 10 months ago by davel@lemmy.ml to c/coronavirus@lemmy.ml

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why was someone still living in an iron lung for that long? Was there really no way to build this person a portable assisted breathing contraption so he/she could have a life? Seems unnecessarily cruel in this day and age.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago

He was able to move about without it via “frog breathing,” but needed the iron lung to sleep.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Read in an article that he chose to keep using it as he was so used to it