Here’s the latest update about Above The Law founder David Lat & his ongoing battle with Coronavirus. Our best wishes go out to his husband, family, friends and colleagues. “We won’t know for a few more days, whether he’s going to get better—whether this stuff [the drug therapy] is working or not,” said his husband, Zachary Baron Shemtob.
David Lat remains in critical condition, on a ventilator and totally sedated inside a Manhattan hospital, as doctors and his family wait to see over the next several days if the “very experimental” drug therapy he has been given to help him fight the coronavirus will work, said his husband on Monday afternoon.
“We won’t know for a few more days, whether he’s going to get better—whether this stuff [the drug therapy] is working or not,” said his husband of 4 ½ years, Zachary Baron Shemtob, in a phone interview.
“We’re hanging in there,” he said. “We’re just waiting and hoping.”
The initial sedation Lat was given early on Saturday, as he was put on a potentially life-saving ventilator because his oxygen levels had dropped, did not keep Lat from waking up on Saturday, “immediately opening his eyes, demanding a pen and paper and starting to write down questions, to get to the bottom of everything,” Shemtob said Monday.
“It was just David being David. It wasn’t that he was agitated, but, you know, he was curious and inquisitive,” Shemtob said. “He just wanted to be his inquisitive journalist self. It was shortly after being put on the ventilator.”
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