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COVID-19 homecoming

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COVID-19 homecoming
COVID-19 homecoming
A local man returns home after a long battle with COVID-19.

SPECIAL EVENT HELD TOWELCOME A LOCAL MAN WHO BATTLEDCOVID-19 AND SURVIVED..

HE'S BACK HOME AFTER MONTHSOF TREATMENT...FAMILY, FRIENDS AND THECOMMUNITY COMINGTOGETHER WITH BANNERS, SIGNS ANDA FULL-ON PARADE TOWELCOME JUSTIN REYNOLDS BACKHOME TO BAKERSFIELD.IN LATE APRIL JUSTIN, HIS WIFEAND THEIR DAUGHTER ALLTESTED POSITIVE FOR COVID-19.APRIL AND THEIR DAUGHTER WEREASYMPTOMATIC WHILE JUSTINSUFFERED DOUBLE PNEUMONIA.

HEWAS QUICKLY PLACED IN AMEDICALLY-INDUCED COMASURVIVING SOLELY OFF AVENTILATOR.

HE WAS TREATED ATMERCYHOSPITAL FOR TWO MONTHS BEFOREBEING TRANSFERRED TOA LOS ANGELES HOSPITAL.FAMILY SAYS ANTIBODIES FROMPLASMA PROVIDED BY ANANONYMOUS COVID-19 SURVIVORHELPED BOOST JUSTIN'S IMMUNESYSTEM, GIVING HIM THE STRENGTHTO BREATHE ON HISOWN AGAIN AND EVENTUALLY RETURNHOME."IT FEELS LIKE A DREAM COMETRUE.

ITDOESN'T FEEL REAL.

I DON'T THINKI SLEPT LAST NIGHT, BECAUSE ITWAS HIS FIRSTNIGHT HOME AND I WAS SO AFRAID.BUT, HE DID SO GOOD AND SO WELLTHAT.

IT'SJUST AN AMAZING MIRACLE.

WETHANK GOD, AND ALL OF OURFRIENDS AND FAMILYAND EVERYONE THAT HAS GIVEN USSO MUCH SUPPORT AND LOVE.

WEJUST CAN'TTHANK THEM ENOUGH, OURCOMMUNITY, EVERYBODY."JUSTIN'S WIFE SAYS HIS HEALTH ISGOOD, BUT HE IS STILLRECOVERING AFTER BEING IN A COMAFOR TWO MONTHS AND HE ISCURRENTLY IN PHYSICAL THERAPY.HIS WIFE ENCOURAGES EVERYONE TODONATECONVALASCENT PLASMA -- WHICH SHEFEELS SAVED HER HUSBAND'SLIFE.COVID-19 HAS

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