Calgary father recovers from COVID-19 after 16 days in medically-induced coma

When Jay Chowdhury woke up in a hospital bed at the Peter Lougheed Hospital on April 3rd, he was sure he’d only been there for 24 hours. To his complete shock, the nurse taking care of him said more than two weeks had passed. "She said you have been sleeping here for 16 days today," recalled the 51-year-old. "It is the 16th day you have been on ventilation. "You have been actually struggling between life and death." All Chowdhury remembers is falling ill and his wife Jyoti dropping him off