CNN New Day Weekend With Christi Paul and Boris Sanchez June 4, 2024 11:54:00
Broken barriers and he's still going strong today. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta tells us his remarkable story in today "the human factor." >> meet paul alexander, he's one of the last people in the world still in an iron lung. the iron lung works to change the air pressure and stimulate breathing. it has been his home, keeping him alive for 70 years. in 1952, paul contracted polio and became paralyzed from the next down. he was 6 years old. a therapist promised paul a dog if he could breathe on his own for three minutes. >> i've developed a way to get air and breathing. i worked on it for a year bef...