Opera singers are teaching long-term Covid-19 patients to breathe again

CNN via msn ^ | 17 Jul 2021 | Paul Vercammen, CNN

[blueplum]

Covid-19 shoved Jeff Sweat into a medical coma for three weeks last winter, face down on a ventilator, on death's trap door.

...Sweat and several other patients with serious medical complications caused by the virus attend weekly opera classes via video conference, conducted by members of the Los Angeles Opera and music educator Rondi Charleston.

"When you are intubated, you forget how to drink and breathe," Sweat said. "It was like breathing was a second language. Singing helps me connect. Breathing to a purpose. It gave me reason to learn how to breathe again."

[blueplum]

community service idea for music teachers /church choir directors - covid survivors need u to learn how to breathe again

[Gene Eric]

Like a bell...

[Bayard]

Intubation destroys much of a person’s singing range though. So many of these folks will never know what they could have sounded like, before Covid.

I know a singer who was intubated. They can’t sing the same range of notes anymore.

[a fool in paradise]

Need to teach people who’ve worn masks 9 hours a day for 16 months how to breathe again as well.

[billorites]