Nick Cordero will likely need 'double lung transplant' to recover from COVID-19 after being in ICU for three months

The Broadway actor has been in hospital for 90 days and had his leg amputated in April following complications from the virus 
Nick Cordero will have to have his right leg amputated after suffering complications from the coronavirus
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Megan C. Hills3 July 2020

Broadway star Nick Cordero continues to battle mounting health complications following his coronavirus diagnosis, as his wife Amanda Kloots has revealed he will most likely require a double lung transplant.

The 41 year old was hospitalised in March for COVID-19 and his wife Amanda Kloots revealed she had been told “four times that he won’t survive”, but says that she sees him “fighting” every day.

Speaking with Gayle King on CBS This Morning, Kloots said: “In a perfect world, as we are hoping for a perfect world, our ultimate, ultimate goal would be to get [Cordero] to be a candidate for a double lung transplant.”

“We think that that is most likely the possibility. [There’s a] 99 percent chance that he would be needing that in order to live the kind of life that my husband would want to live,” she continued.

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“A lot of things would have to line up for Nick to be a candidate for that.”

Cordero’s health has taken a number of turns over the past few months, though Kloots said that he was “okay” and “stable”.

She revealed to King that his ”muscles had atrophied so he can’t move his body yet” and that he was “extremely weak”, though he was able to respond to yes or no questions by looking either up or down and had been trying to smile for Kloots.

She continued: “The nurses have all said he answers my questions the best.”

Kloots also added that she was the one to inform Cordero that his leg had been amputated, following blood clotting issues brought on by coronavirus complications.

Saying that it was “hard to gauge” how he was feeling about the whole thing, Kloots said she was caught in a “vicious cycle, or the ICU dance” and just wanted to “get us out of the hamster wheel.”

Cordero and Kloots share a one-year-old son called Elvis.

Kloots regularly shares updates of her husband’s health on Instagram, urging people to dance and pray for Cordero.

Stars such as Florence Pugh have also lent their support to the family as Kloots has held onto hope that they would get their “Code Rocky”; a term used by medical professionals in the US to describe COVID-19 patients who had beaten the virus.

Following his hospitalisation for coronavirus, Cordero has had his leg amputated, woken up from a medically-induced coma and received a temporary pacemaker (which has since been removed).

Kloots revealed that Thursday marked Cordero's 90th day in hospital and paid tribute to healthcare workers helping to look after her husband.

“I want to give a huge shout out to the Health Hero’s that are taking care of my husband. Ninety days of extraordinary care and when he was COVID positive they were risking their lives to save his,” she said.

“I sit in the hospital and watch the nurses monitor every machine, fix all his lines, watch his levels, turn him, bathe him, attend to his dressings, administer medicines and then ask ME if I need anything... water or crackers?!?! They are absolutely incredible and Elvis and I will always be grateful.”

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