On the ground with the novel coronavirus: How the disease has devastated local human bodies, changed hospitals from the inside out, and led to vastly different opinions about how we will ultimately conquer it.

Dead Man Walking

By all accounts, Mark Redpath should not be here right now. By all accounts, he should have died. As the one and only Tahoe Forest Hospital patient to have been on a ventilator — fighting for his life under the grip of COVID-19 — he wants you to know this thing is real, the biggest misconception out there being that it’s “just a cold.” Reporting and broadcasting by Juliana Demarest.

COVID-19 nearly killed Truckee’s Mark Redpath. He sat down with Moonshine Ink to tell us why it’s not “just a cold” and about his continuing struggle with the devastating effects of this disease.