Scottish coronavirus patient in Vietnam survived after 68 days on a ventilator
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Scottish coronavirus patient in Vietnam survived after 68 days on a ventilator

Stephen Cameron, a Scottish pilot, spent 68 days on a ventilator in Vietnam. "If I'd been almost anywhere else on the planet, I'd be dead. They would have flicked the switch after 30 days," says Stephen Cameron from his hospital bed. Cameron, the last Covid-19 patient in an intensive care unit in Vietnam, has been the sickest doctors have had to deal with during the outbreak

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