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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Umesh Isalkar | TNN

Pune: After 45 days on ventilator, 4-year-old boy defeats adult-like Covid-ARDS

PUNE: “I like to play and eat chocolates,” says Prem, grinning from ear to ear. It’s hard to believe that just 10 days ago, the bubbly four-year-old had overcome severe Covid-linked pneumonia with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that had kept him strapped to an invasive ventilator for 45 days.

Doctors said Prem’s recovery following such a long period of mechanical ventilation was in all probability the first such case in the world.

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