The First COVID Patient in Burbank: Gregg Garfield’s Fight to Survive
3/10/202635 min
On this episode of We’re Out Of Time, host Richard Taite sits down with COVID survivor Gregg Garfield to share one of the most extraordinary survival stories from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gregg recounts the moment everything changed while on a ski trip in the Italian Alps—when a warning call from his girlfriend first mentioned a mysterious virus spreading through Europe. Within days, flu-like symptoms spread through the group, and soon after returning to Los Angeles, Gregg tested positive. At the time, hospitals were unprepared for the virus, and he became the first COVI...
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First 90 secondsGregg Garfield· Guest0:00
When I checked in the morning of the 5th, it took them 15 minutes to gear up, which is full suits, hazmat gear, the whole nine yards Just to come see you ... just to walk in the room to address whatever I, was going on with me. So I, I code it all. I'm done, if they weren't ready.
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Richard Taite· Host0:54
Today's guest on the show is Greg Garfield. He was patient zero at the very beginning of COVID. But to open the show today, I just wanted to say one thing about the anniversary of COVID coming up. You know, it's six years now. There is no anniversary, but the anniversary in my mind is March 11th, and that's because there was a guy by the name of Adam Silver that saved thousands and thousands of lives on that day. He's the commissioner of the National Basketball Association,