Mike Schultz, a gay San Francisco nurse who contracted COVID-19 at the Winter Party in Maimi, has opened up about his battle with the disease.
In a new BuzzFeed interview, Schultz reveals he spent more than a month on a ventilator and lost more than 50 pounds. Schultz, 44, first noticed symptoms on March 17, just after he returned home after a visit to Boston.
He ended up spending six weeks in the intensive care unit at the hospital on a ventilator under sedation. When he woke up, he thought