“She explained to me that within an hour, I would expire if I didn’t allow myself to be ventilated and I said, ‘No, I’m not,’ because I looked at the statistics, and at the time six out of seven COVID patients going on the ventilator, we’re not ever coming off,” David Johnson says.
In March 2020, David, a sportswriter who covers Ole Miss football for CBS Sports, attended a conference in Nashville.