Sergio Lapegüe with coronavirus: they put a helmet on him to breathe better

02/04/2021 18:12

• Clarín.com

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Updated 02/04/2021 18:45

The

coronavirus

is hitting Argentina with everything, and the rise in infections was exposed in different cases that affected entertainment in recent days, some of them more serious: Carmen Barbieri, who had to be induced into a pharmacological coma, and the recent hospitalization of Raúl Rizzo.

But the situation of

Sergio Lapegüe

(56) moved in a special way given the vitality and youth that the journalist and driver of

Trece

showed until a few weeks ago

.

On Tuesday the 2nd, after a CT scan detected inflammation in his lungs, Sergio had to be transferred to the intensive care unit at the

Juncal Clinic

in Temperley.

As the hours passed, his picture stabilized and a day later, on Wednesday the 3rd, his wife 

Silvia

, known as 

Bochi

, shared a photo of Sergio.

"He had a good night," said the woman, hopeful that the recovery is progressing.

Sergio Lapegüe, hospitalized with covid.

In

Los Angeles in the morning

(El thirteen, Monday through Friday at 11) they gave a new part about Sergio's health.

And the novelty has to do with the application of a special technique to improve the treatment of

COVID-19

.

"I spoke with Bochi, Sergio's wife. She is close to him minute by minute. This recovery comes and goes, at times she has a fever and at others not," said Andrea Taboada, who said that she speaks three times a day with the family of Sergio to be aware of everything.

And he added: "Now, the doctors decided to put a device called 'helmet' on him so that he does not strain his lungs and breathes better."

This helmet in the shape of a diving suit is a technique designed by Argentine entrepreneurs and has been used since mid-2020.

The journalist shared an image of Sergio in which he appears wearing the helmet.

"He sent his wife a photo and she allowed us to show it. This helmet gives her oxygen and allows her not to strain her breathing capacity so much. The doctors are doing everything they can," Taboada said.

Sergio Lapegüe with coronavirus: they put a helmet on him to breathe better.

"Today Sergio

was a little more downcast

, it's like he comes and goes (in the mood). He makes video calls with his wife and now he's with that device, they are trying," Andrea ended up saying.

"And one day it was my turn ... By mistake, by recklessness or by an imponderable I got COVID," Sergio wrote on January 25 when confirming that he had been infected with coronavirus after a trip to the Caribbean.

"Loneliness. Being isolated. Not wanting to see anyone. Being in the dark out of necessity. You can't turn on the TV, simply because you don't want to hear anything. Silence. I only feel the footsteps of the tremendous public servants going from one place to another. down the corridor of the coronavirus, "Lape said days later, in a deep text in which he crudely recounted his emotions from the clinic.

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