Man spends 175 days in the hospital after testing positive for COVID-19 News4 spoke with him as he was released from the hospital on Friday. “Find something you can cling to and fight for it,” Lloyd said. For Lloyd, that was his wife and two young kids. What he thought was a sinus infection back in October turned out to be COVID-19. “I couldn’t breathe hardly,” Lloyd said. Lloyd had to be taken to Vanderbilt’s COVID ICU. That’s four hours away from his home in La Follette in East Tennessee. “It was scary for him to be that sick,” Sara Lloyd, Zach’s wife said.