Wow. Have these before-and-after-Covid pics been posted? Apologies if I missed it.

[catbyte]

Link to tweet

Spoke with Mike Schultz who has gone viral for sharing a before/after photo of his six weeks in the hospital after contracting the coronavirus at the Miami Winter Party Festival https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/man-shares-photo-before-after-covid-19 …

[MissB]

1. That's a helluva diet plan

Looks like muscle loss.

medically stupid question: what’s the port in his stomach?

[tblue37]

2. Could be how he was fed for 6 weeks. nt

[sunonmars]

12. peg feeder by the look of it.If he was ventilated then they would have to.

[catbyte]

8. According to the article, it's a feeding tube. He was unable to eat for weeks.

Here's a pic of him and his partner at the festival he thinks he it at:



And here's another pic:

[tblue37]

17. they're very handsome together. Slate did a piece some time ago, about "boyfriend twins."

I think these guys do look a lot alike.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/04/boyfriend-twin-photos-do-gay-men-date-people-who-look-similar-to-them.html

[smirkymonkey]

3. I'm sorry he went through that and glad he survived, but he honestly

looks better and healthier in the photo on the right. He looks younger as well. He just doesn't look that healthy in the photo on the left. Looks kind of worn out, like he burns the candle at both ends.

[Bayard]

5. Looks like a body builder on the left,

And a marathoner on the right.

[catbyte]

9. Check out the pic I just posted above.

On edit: He looks like a cancer patient.

[smirkymonkey]

15. Yeah, he does look a little worse in that one.

Pretty shocking change.

[demtenjeep]

4. looks like he had a trach

wonder if he is to use a feeding tube the rest of his life?

[catbyte]

11. He did, see the pic of him in bed I posted in the replies. The article said that he's just now able

to eat food. They're probably keeping it in temporarily just as a precaution.

[FirstLight]

6. looks like cancer or AiDS :/

6 weeks!
That's not "just the flu" that's like, a LONG time... AND he's not out of the woods yet.

Probably has to be on a special diet for a while, try to rebuild body mass.
Not to mention lingering heart or kidney or other organ damage.

This shit scares the fuck out of me.

[Ex Lurker]

7. In the comments

They are claiming it's a hoax and he lost weight from going off steroids.

[HotTeaBag]

10. I doubt very much it's a hoax, but I'm sure he was unable to take his usual

cycle of steroids while hospitalized and that did have something to do with the extreme muscle loss.

Same thing happened to Gronkowski - from football player to tennis player in about two weeks.

[babylonsister]

16. Do you know he was on steroids?

Can't people get ripped by working out?

[catbyte]

13. You don't have a feeding tube and trach tube inserted when you stop steroids.

[Squinch]

14. Also, that was a guy in obviously pretty good shape going in. Imagine what it would

do to people who are less strong and fit.