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Unvaccinated Florida COVID patient flown to CT for life-saving treatment after reaching out to 169 hospitals

WTNH Channel 8
by: Rich Coppola

Posted: Sep 22, 2021

(WTNH) — A Florida COVID-19 patient was brought to Connecticut earlier this month for a life-saving treatment after his family reached out to 169 hospitals without success.

Susan Walker was running out of time. Her husband Robby was lying in a Florida hospital on a ventilator with COVID-19, pneumonia in both lungs.

“My mother-in-law was with me, and my daughter,” she said. “We went back to our hotel room and cried about it of course because we had felt like we had lost the battle.”

In reality, it was far from over.