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Tethered to an oxygen concentrator, Freddy Fernandez, looks on while his fiancé Vanessa Cruz, talks to their daughter Melanii, age 4, in the living room of their home Friday, June 10, 2022, in Carthage, Mo. After contracting COVID-19 in August 2021, Fernandez spent months hooked up to a respirator and an ECMO machine before coming home in February 2022 to begin his long recovery from the disease.

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