Mount Sinai South Nassau Celebrates Discharge of 600th COVID-19 Patient Recovery

All along Bianca Jimenez, 19, of Rockaway Beach, Queens, had a sinking feeling that she had COVID-19. The dry cough, loss of sense of taste and smell, dizziness, trouble breathing and fever matched the symptoms of the disease she had heard about on the news. “I kept hearing people were dying from this,” said the accounting major at Manhattan Community College. An inhaler prescribed by her pediatrician failed to ease Ms. Jimenez’s breathing problems. The next day she visited a local urgent care center and her fears were realized when she learned she had double pneumonia and had been infected with the virus. “I was really scared,” she said. “But I thought I’m young and healthy. I’ll get through this.”

On April 20, she was admitted to Mount Sinai South Nassau, where doctors brought down her 104-degree temperature and treated her with antibiotics, oxygen and breathing therapies. Four days later, Ms. Jimenez has recovered and is the 600th COVID-19 patient who is going home today. Said Jimenez: “I’m very excited to get home, and so glad I got through this.”

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