Staff at Queens Hospital called 68-year-old COVID patient Rudy Corletto the “miracle man.” The grandfather spent 29 days on a ventilator during New York’s brutal first wave of the pandemic, when most ICU patients didn’t make it. We were there when he was finally discharged.

Filmed at the height of the 2020 COVID outbreak in NYC, and nominated for “Outstanding Short Feature Story in a Newscast” at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards.