He narrowly survived COVID-19. Now he’s running back to both hospitals that treated him.
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Paulo Santos outside Jersey Shore University Medical Center. He is marking his recovery from COVID-19 a year ago by running 20 miles on Saturday between the two hospitals where he was treated. Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Neptune City, N.J. Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media
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The last time Paulo Santos traveled between two hospitals, critically ill with COVID-19, he was transported by ambulance, his survival very much in doubt.
On Saturday, exactly one year since returning home, Santos will recreate his journey by running about 20 miles from CentraState Medical Center in Freehold to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune.
Former COVID patient to run 20 miles between hospitals that treated him in New Jersey
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Paulo Santos of Manalapan had just come off of a ventilator on his 39th birthday last April 7 and was too weak to talk, but this weekend, he plans to run 20 miles. The timeframe I was on a ventilator, the world had literally changed in that three-week span, Santos said.
It had turned into a world of lockdowns and a raging pandemic.
Santos was an early COVID patient. He was admitted to CentraState Medical Center on March 17 and transferred a week later to Jersey Shore University Medical Center.
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Police said they responded around 11:36 am to a constriction site on Boundary Road after receiving a 9-1-1 call that a worker had fallen through a roof and landed inside the building.
The 24-year old from North Plainfield was working on the roof when he suddenly fell about 20 feet and suffered injuries to his head, back, leg as well as some possible internal injuries, police said.
He was conscious when officers arrived on location and was then brought to Jersey Shore University Medical Center.
The worker is employed by Hageman Roofing Company located in Ridgefield Park.
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