Dave Smith was once considered a medical sensation: the Brit was continuously infected with the Coronavirus for 290 days – longer than almost any other documented matter worldwide. Now the 76-year-old peacefully died in his house in Bristol on April 1, as his family confirmed.
Smith’s extraordinary course of the disease made the headwide worldwide in 2020 and 2021. The former row instructor and musician was with the Coronavirus in May 2020 – and it could not get rid of it for ten months. During this time he was admitted to hospital seven times, lost more than 63 kilograms of body weight and lost about half of his lung capacity.
“Was as if someone pulled the plug”
He could hardly go or speak. In interviews he later said that he felt ready to give up “and” was “reconciled to death.” Researchers from the University of Bristol investigated Smith’s business in detail to better understand how the virus in the body mutates and survives.
Smith himself described his feelings during the disease: “It was as if someone had pulled the plug and life slowly flowed out of you.”
Smith filled a lifelong dream
It was only in 2021 that he was able to beat virus thanks for a combination of antiviral medication that was made available to him by the American pharmaceutical company Regeneron as part of a humanitarian access program. Smith was considered a “Wonderman” among doctors. At the time of his death he was not infected with COVID-19, reported the British BBC.
Despite his serious history of disease, the enthusiastic singer returned to the stage. He celebrated an emotional comeback concert in his home town of Bristol and fulfilled a lifelong dream in 2023: an appearance in the West End West End in West End with a choir of Covid Survivors.
Source: Krone
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