Just got off the phone with the night nurse. Dan is doing much better. The paralytic is helping him relax enough to let the ventilator do the work. He is still on his stomach, proning. They are down to using only 70% of the oxygen from the ventilator and his blood gasses are in the upper 90s which is a very good sign. Before using the paralytic they had to keep the ventilator at 100% and his blood gasses were still very low. Tomorrow around noon they are going to turn him over on his back and see how we does with breathing. He will still have the paralytic in him and he will still be sedated so we don’t be in pain. He had his last remdesivir dose today but he is still on steroids. We just have to wait and see now and let his body fight the infection.
Daniel Hopkins 