25-Year-Old Bank Associate In COVID Coma

(EFinance Careers) Although some of the bankers who were first to catch the virus are now beginning to emerge the other side and come back to work, it seems like not everyone is lucky enough to catch a mild case. 

Jack Allard, a business control associate in BoA’s equities business in New York, was put into a medically induced coma last week, after being hospitalized on March 15 with high fever, back pain and vomiting. 

Allard's situation makes pretty distressing reading, particularly for anyone who was still clinging to hopes that COVID19 was only a threat to the old and vulnerable. A 25 year-old former college athlete (as is common on Wall Street), who didn’t drink or smoke and was apparently in excellent general health, Allard reportedly came down with symptoms in the office on March 13th.  He had the additional bad luck that a busy hospital seems to have lost his test results, causing a five day delay in confirming that he did indeed have the virus.

He's now been airlifted to the University of Pennsylvania, and put on the experimental trials for remdesivir, the anti-viral drug which seems to be having some effect on limiting the coronavirus.  His oxygen levels are apparently improving along with his liver function.  But he’s clearly very ill, and as his family say, his ordeal shows that “we’re in uncharted waters” when it comes to having any degree of understanding who might be at risk or how.  We hope he’ll pull through and return to the trading floor with the rest of the industry.

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