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  • Some info that I found important that isn’t in this article but is in the Wiki:

    He spent 18 months in hospital, before going home. He was paralyzed from the neck down. His parents rented a portable generator and a truck to bring him and his iron lung home. Beginning in 1954, with help from the March of Dimes and a physical therapist named Mrs. Sullivan, Alexander taught himself glossopharyngeal breathing which allowed him to leave the iron lung for gradually increasing periods of time.

    Alexander died from a COVID-19 infection on March 11, 2024, at the age of 78. He was one of the last two people still using the technology, alongside Martha Lillard, who first entered an iron lung in 1953.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Alexander_(polio_survivor)

    (I haven’t brought over the sources, they can be found on the Wiki link)