Miracle: 6-year-old boy survives coronavirus: 'I’m a cystic fibrosis warrior, and I beat COVID-19'
By JamieFlower
A 6-year-old boy who was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis has survived the coronavirus, he said in a video his mother posted to social media.
“Thank you for all the cards and the prayers and the gifts,” Joseph Bostain says at the start of the video. “I’m a cystic fibrosis warrior, and I beat COVID-19.”
With a beautiful grin and a flourish, he flexes his arm at the end.
Joseph’s mother, Sabrina Bostain, spoke on her son’s diagnosis on March 19, after it was confirmed, asking her Facebook friends for prayers and to follow the social distancing guidelines.
A few of his symptoms included a fever, cough and fatigue, she wrote.
In the two weeks that followed, Bostain posted regular updates on his condition and thanks for the gifts and care packages people had shipped to her son.
By March 28, his fever had broken for good, she wrote.
“Every day is a better day,” she wrote on Sunday. “Joseph had a wonderful night’s sleep and [is] still fever free. Thank you God!”
Finally, on April 1, she posted a video with the caption: “Today Joseph can tell you how he is doing himself!”
Bostain and her husband, Timothy, have five children, according to her Facebook profile.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. surpassed 300,000 Saturday, with at least 8,162 deaths.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee joined more than three dozen other states on Monday when he issued a statewide stay-at-home order to try and slow the virus’ spread. The state had seen at least 3,067 cases on Friday, up from 1,834 cases at the start of the week, according to the governor’s office.
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