DAYTON, Ohio — Justin Morgan, 38, was a healthy dietitian at a nursing home when his wife Anita Morgan said something went wrong.

What You Need To Know

  • Doctors said people in their 30s are getting seriously ill from COVID-19

  • Husband and wife Justin, 38, and Anita Morgan, 39, both got sick at the same time

  • He had to be put in a coma and undergo special treatment; she recovered on her own

“He is extremely sick, his fever's are high, he’s constantly just sleeping. He feels horrible,” said Anita.

He was rushed to a Dayton hospital with COVID-19, was put into a coma and put on a ventilator to help him breathe.

“I was terrified. I asked the doctor, he was going through—how dire this is. He is not breathing on his own, and I'm sobbing,” said Anita.

As she watched her husband get worse, the 39 year old found out she, too, was sick with the virus.

“I ran a low-grade fever for a couple days, but nothing like him,” said Anita.

Doctors said they're not alone.

The couple are a part of a growing demographic of otherwise healthy adults in their 30s falling victim to the virus.

Justin spent four days in a coma, fighting for his life.

“This poor doctor is listening to me cry on the phone and I had to ask him, what are his chances? That’s how scared I was,” said Anita.

But a special treatment she agreed to would wake him up.

“I was very weak. I wanted to contact Anita, but my phone was so heavy,” said Justin Morgan.

The regular blood donor was feeling the effects of not only the medicine, but from someone who donated to him through a plasma treatment.

“I might even still be in the hospital right now if it hadn’t been for that,” said Justin.

Antibodies from a donor who recovered from COVID-19 were given to him in a transfusion, and it worked.

“It took my recovering from months down to less than a month,” said Justin.

He’s still fighting off secondary infections from COVID-19, but the couple has been recovering at home for a little more than a week. They are getting better and managed to keep COVID-19 away from the rest of their family.

“This could’ve been way worse. We just are so fortunate, so blessed,” said Anita.