Dave Smith, 72, in England, spent 10 scary months of fighting against Covid-19, with 42 times positive and seven hospitalizations.

Like thousands of others, Dave Smith, living in Bristol, was infected with NCOV right in the first outbreak in England last year.

For more than 290 days, Smith has 42 positive tests and must be hospitalized seven times.

Talking about the first time to death, Smith said he called all family members to reconcile with them.

Smith, a retired driver who is finally cured Covid-19 with the type of antibody developed by Regeneron, the drug used to be treated for former Donald Trump President.

Smith is approached this drug through a program used to save people, in which a non-licensed therapy can be used for severe cases if the approved therapies are ineffective.

Doctors have called for improving the accessibility of similar treatments for other patients such as Smith, to reduce health damage and new variation risks developed during the time they are infected

Dave Smith at home in Bristol, England.

Ed Moran, an infectious disease consultant at North Bristol NHS Trust, the facility providing medical services in the UK, said that some people may be infected with NCOV many times like Smith, although the number is not much.

We know NCOV in these patients appears similarly to what sees in some new strains.

Like Smith, most people are infected many times with low neutral antibody concentrations, may be due to recent blood cancer treatment or genetic conditions that cause cells to produce antibodies defective

Smith was chemotherapy to treat blood cancer in 2019 and just removed the disease, discovered Covid-19 in March last year.

I finish exhausted and lose the smell.

Smith was discharged home after a antibiotic treatment, but continued to feel unwell and could not leave the house.

By October, Bristol University researchers discovered that NCOV still existed in Smith and was not simply the remaining rna pieces caused a positive reaction when tested, according to Moran.

Smith's disease still changes erratically, improving, when it worsened quickly.

Sometimes I was bedridden in two, three months.

Smith has prepared everything for his departure, ensuring his wife can access all important documents, papers and bank passwords, classifying their items and marking what can be used

The turning point until the doctors decided to try the regenerone antibody therapy.

I am really excited because after months, I can make my wife a cup of coffee.

45 days after treatment with this therapy, Smith has negative test results with Covid-19.

After governing Covid-19, Smith went to Plymouth to visit his son, on a vacation in Cornwall and to shop in Oxford Street in London.

I will never get 100% health because Covid-19 destroyed my lungs.