Garfield was one of the first COVID patients in America and the very first in L.A. Those very early days of the pandemic were a terrifying time for hospital workers, as very little was known about the disease and how it spread. “It was also such a satisfying way to celebrate National Nurses Week by walking and showing them what the fruits of their labor have produced.” “I got to go to every department in the hospital and see all of the people that made that heroic effort that allowed my survival to take place - from the ER staff, to the ICU doctors, to my my physical therapist - it was such an unbelievable day and moment,” he said on Monday.
And now, three years to the date later, he had the privilege of reuniting with staff as a completely healthy man. He was in a medically induced coma for 31 days during which his heart flatlined on four separate occasions.īut on May 8, 2020, after 64 days in the hospital, Garfield did what doctors had thought impossible: he walked out of the front door. He suffered from collapsed lungs, sepsis, failed kidneys, low blood pressure, acute respiratory syndrome, pulmonary embolism and the loss of several fingers and toes. Garfield was given a 1% chance of survival when he was admitted to the ICU after contracting COVID-19 during a ski trip to the Italian Dolomites in February of 2020. Three years since his miraculous death-defying recovery Gregg Garfield, aka COVID Patient Zero, returned to Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank on Monday, May 8, to thank the staff who nursed him back to life.
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