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MANILA - He knew from the moment his doctor told him he would have to be intubated that death would be just a whisper away. "I told him that if you do that, I'd already have one foot in the grave," Mr Judd de Leon, a recruitment specialist at talents firm Cielo, recalled. It was mid-July. He had heard those stories about how it was a death sentence for patients with Covid-19 to go on a ventilator. So, when his doctor told him his only option was that, he baulked. His oxygen saturation level had plummeted to 67, when it...
