What Does Recovery From COVID-19 Look Like? It Depends. A Pulmonologist Explains.

Dr. Kenneth Lyn-Kew shares observations from the front lines on those hardest hit by the pandemic

Recovering from COVID-19 is more difficult for elderly patients with certain pre-existing conditions. Halfpoint/Shutterstock

Reports of recovery from serious illness caused by COVID-19 have been trickling in from around the world.

Physicians are swapping anecdotes on social media: a 38-year-old man who went home after three weeks at the Cleveland Clinic, including 10 days in intensive care. A 93-year-old woman in New Orleans whose breathing tube was removed, successfully, after three days. A patient at Massachusetts General Hospital who was taken off a ventilator after five days and was doing well.