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A Florida man battling COVID-19 came out of a medically induced coma on Easter Sunday — days after receiving plasma donated by someone who had recovered from the virus, according to a local report.

A few days after that, Michael Kevin Rathel was taken off the ventilator and breathing on his own, Fox 35 reported.

“We are in a very different place than we were 24 hours ago,” his wife, Stacie, told the outlet Wednesday, after speaking to her husband over FaceTime. “He was even cracking jokes with the nurses. So I thought, OK yeah, he’s back.”

Doctors at Orlando Health initially put him on a ventilator and into the medically induced coma on April 4, according to the report. He received plasma therapy four days …continued .
[Source: Fox News]