After about a week of no improvement, his doctor issued him a test for coronavirus and even after the test came back positive his symptoms quickly deteriorated.

"My temperature and fever just wouldn't go away and it just kept getting higher and developed a really bad cough," says Jason Montgomery of Austintown.

Montgomery said when he arrived at Mercy Hospital in Boardman on March 16th medications weren't working and he was moved to the ICU where he was placed on a ventilator and later sedated.

"I was not improving, my symptoms were not getting better. I had to go on a rotation table for two days to try and help with pneumonia because I also had two different types of pneumonia so it was a pretty long ten days," he adds.

Montgomery's family signed off on the usage of the experimental antiviral drug remdesivir. Montgomery adds it was that plus the support from the Mercy staff that paved the way for his discharge.

"I can't believe that there were these people that I don't know cared so much about me I was like a celebrity. I didn't realize the fight that I went through in the ICU but they were all pulling and cheering for me and not giving up hope," adds Montgomery.

Montgomery was discharged on April 3rd and is home recovering now. He still is waiting for one last test to come back negative before he is given the all-clear.