âIt Takes Timeâ: I.C.U. Workers Help Their Former Covid Patients Mend They survived serious cases of Covid-19, sometimes spending weeks on a ventilator, but not without complications. Now, a special clinic at an L.A. hospital is helping them get back to their lives. Gilbert Torres returned to Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, where he had been on a ventilator in the I.C.U.Credit...Isadora Kosofsky for The New York Times April 1, 2021 LOS ANGELES â Three days after being released from Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, Gilbert Torres returned on a stretcher, a clear tube snaking from his nose to an oxygen tank. It was the last place he wanted to be.