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SEE IT: Mount Sinai Queens Staff Applauds Coronavirus Survivor
This Queens man showed up at the Mount Sinai Queens ER with fever, coughing and shortness of breath. He left as a coronavirus survivor.
ASTORIA, QUEENS — They lent him a hand, and now they're giving him a hand.
A new video released by Mount Sinai Queens shows a team of health care workers applauding a survivor of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, as he leaves the hospital.
Woodside resident Guillermo Usme was feverish, coughing and short of breath when he arrived at the Astoria hospital's emergency room about a week ago.
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It turned out that he had the new coronavirus, and an X-ray showed infection in both his lungs, according to emergency room physician Erik Blutinger.
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His health care team used steroids and supplemental oxygen to help Usme recover.
He was discharged from the hospital Saturday amid a round of applause.
"I don't know how to express everything I feel inside," Usme said in the video. "They helped me so much. Thank you so much."
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