Amanda Palmer Chan is waiting for her husband t to the longest five minutes waiting have ever done in my life.

It'll be the first time she's been able to touch him since he was admitted to the hospital more than three weeks ago.

It's a reunion.

Amanda and T to both feared he wouldn't live to see what was that moment like for both of you, it was a most joy I've ever really waas it.

Just It felt like everything was whole.

Finally again.

So we're busting out of jail.

19 ravaged T two's health, putting him in intensive care, unable to breathe for himself.

Now his doctors and nurses all there for his center that as a nurse it makes it work, you know, risking our lives, coming here every day, just seeing that the union of a husband and a wife that was pretty special, that reunion at the hospital, setting the stage for an even more spectacular scene at home, where the father of three was reunited with his daughters.

What was the first thing you said to your daughters?

I love you, Thanks that he was writing itself.

But that's what I wanted to get out.

What I'm good.

Wasn't it begun?

So every day was like a police was like a fight to get out.

Get home At the end of a week where we've seen the youngest victim, a six week old baby die of covert 19 our hearts break for that family and the oldest still losing the battle in record numbers, we're learning more about the virus, who it targets and why everyone's at risk.

Soon it became a lot of patients who were forties thirties patients who were coming in requiring oxygen on required significant interventions that I normally don't do on people that age.

Confirmed cases of covert 19 in our country continue to skyrocket.

In New York City, the epicenter of the crisis, one out of every five people hospitalized is under the age of 44.

In Philadelphia.

More than half of all the cases are those under the age of 49.

I have to say that in my career it's not often that I intubate and sedate someone who is under the age of 40 who has an otherwise ah, normal medical record.

It's really rare for that to happen.

So for it to happen often now is that's what's shocking.

Me is a physician, and I think that's what shopping shocking the community tonight.

The journey back to families Two reasons to hope.

A 26 year old, after 12 days on a ventilator, surprising his parents.

My wife and I have been holding our breath for the past two weeks, just not knowing whether you was make it or not.

A father finally returning to his wife and kids in suburban Virginia.

What's it like holding hands again?

Amazing.

We're not generally very like hell, but I'm sure it's the day that I thought would never come T to remembers.

He started feeling sick at the beginning of March, after a trip to New York.

He was hospitalized just a week later, on March 11th he was still really in bad shape, temperature of one of or just miserable.

Tell me that moment, Amanda, where you had to leave his side.

I got the car and drove away without him, and I just felt panic just want, like, why and how?

How could it possibly be us?

Of all people?

I'm just letting God take this fear has been overwhelming, and I'm trying to have faith, really to me.

Less than 24 hours after teacher was brought to the hospital, his doctor, Eric Osborne, says he had to be put on a ventilator.

It was impressive.

Out quickly is developed.

Severe lung failure.

Amanda.

What's it like when the health care workers are your only lifeline to know what's going on with your husband?

They got to know me.

They knew my number on the phone.

When I go, they put the phone on speaker phone and put it by his head so we could talk to him.

I'm talking good night every night, whether you could hear it or not.

I don't know t to Do you remember those phone calls?

No, but his nurse, Lauren Rush, says those calls matter, she would say, Be stronger, stronger.

And yet she told me that every time she called in on Speaker that his oxygen levels went up.

Yeah, that would happen to what it was.

Yeah, but that's why family's very important.

You know, people recognize their wives or voice more so than they recognize mine a stranger, and so you do see them ti to was the first in his hospital to receive the experimental Ebola drug Rendez Severe.

But a week into his hospitalization, his condition took a dive.

Dr.

Osborn had to put him on a special machine called an ECMO toe.

Lighten the load on his heart and lungs.

There were days, probably a few days there.

That it just was.

We were pretty sure that he wasn't gonna make it.

It was touch and go.

In a way, my stubbornness probably got me back here, but you felt like you were on the brink, Theo.

Days and Weeks added up, leaving Amanda at home, their oldest daughter also testing positive for the virus.

She developed a slight fever but is luckily doing fine for us.

It doesn't change a whole lot because she is asymptomatic, as are the rest of us.

It took weeks before tea to started showing signs of improvement.

They've been able to wake him up.

He's very shy.

He opened his eyes.

He was squeezing their hands when they told him to Um, amazing.

This is a miracle.

During one of her phone calls, another small miracle doctor happened to be in the room and look at his eyes are fluttering while she's talking, and I just lost it.

When you're putting a loved one on a speakerphone, that's not just sentimental.

They're responding to it.

It's amazing.

Yeah, it shows you the power of family and the power of love In Los Angeles.

It's a father, Darrell Ramos Young, who's waiting anxiously for a call.

His son is in the hospital.

It is the 19th day of My Son's Cove in 19 infection, day nine of him being on a ventilator.

Taylor, a young and healthy flight attendant with no preexisting conditions, came down with covert 19 symptoms last month.

He stated that he had a slight fever, so he was told by the doctor to just go ahead and isolated home.

Days later, Taylor went to the E.

R.

To be tested for covert 19.

But by then his symptoms had grown so severe, doctors admitted him into the icy you.

His oxygen levels kept falling, so the next thing we had to do is put on the full oxygen mask on him over his nose, his mouth.

He was really uncomfortable.

He was having panic attacks the morning sunshine.

We're hoping that you had some good rest because the virus is so contagious.

Taylor's parents and his two sisters, Jesse and Nikki, were not allowed into the I C.

U.

Instead, the hospital allowed them to video conference with Taylor.

Watching my son over a computer screen in I C.

U and not being able to be there with him is just the most horrifying experience.

When you have, I'm pleading with him and trying to courage in Mont Saint Taylor Taylor.

You've got to do this.

You got it.

You don't want to go on that ventilator.

It should be a little last resort, but it was just too exhausting for him to bear.

So that's when he decided that the best thing for him would be to go on the ventilator instead.

What the hardest leases when he's asking you if I go on the ventilator, do you know how long I'm gonna be on?

Did, he said, Try to be possibly at all.

He'll be a day or two.

We'll see you.

What do you wait?

At that point, Taylor was no longer able to communicate with his family, but doctors and nurses continue to call Darryl, placing their phone by Taylor's bedside.

Hi, Taylor way all love you.

And I know that you're working hard to get better and to recover day after day.

Hey, Dad.

They offer him words of encouragement and support of you.

Taylor, we know that you can be strong and that you could be brave.

Taylor, just the most wonderful guy with giving heart.

He was always thinking of other people.

He is known for happening this enormous love of ice cream.

He also has really sarcastic wit.

That everybody really enjoys is this is a real gem of ah, young man.

Despite the severity of the situation, Darryl remained hopeful, planted some little finger carrots here.

So maybe in a a couple months I have something large enough to eat, maybe even share with Taylor when he's out of the hospital.

It's always roll difficult making up in the morning because another day of the unknown, and then it's always a little bit terrifying.

We Do you receive that phone call anxious because you want to hear how your loved ones progressing.

But you don't want to answer it on their hand because it could be bad news for the attack up next.

Hello.

This is Carol, the phone call that interrupts our interview and changes everything.

Taylor.

Stay with us.

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