Tire shop owner survives COVID-19
GILBERT â Frank Malich survived COVID-19 that nearly claimed his life more than once at Essentia Health St. Mary's Medical Center in Duluth. He survived many days on a ventilator that pumped air into his lungs when he couldn't breathe on his own. And he survived "when they called a Code Blue on me and brought me back." Malich is grateful to be back home in Gilbert, once again working at his business, Frank's Tire. "I thank God I'm here," he told the Mesabi Tribune in a recent interview at the shop. And he's grateful for his "advocate," daughter Melissa "Missy" Rock, a nurse manager in on...