Former Italian rider
Fausto Gresini
, director of the MotoGP Gresini Racing team hospitalized for coronavirus, was "deeply sedated" after a sudden worsening in his conditions and is currently stable, although with severe lung inflammation, his son reported Monday , Lorenzo Gresini.
"He had not written for a few days because of a sudden worsening in general conditions that occurred at night between Friday and Saturday. Now the situation remains stable, with sufficient values. Dad has been deeply sedated again," he wrote Lorenzo Gresini on the social network Facebook.
"Therapies to combat severe lung inflammation began," he added.
Early last week doctors had noticed slight but steady improvements in Gresini.
The 70-year-old former 125cc world champion (1985 and 87) tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before the Christmas holidays and, after spending an initial period of isolation at home, was admitted to the hospital on December 27. Santa Maria della Scaletta, in Imola.
A few days later, he was transferred to the Maggiore Carlo Alberto Pizzardi specialized center in Bologna, where he entered the Intensive Care Unit with very low levels of oxygen saturation in the blood, was induced into a pharmacological coma and received endotracheal intubation to help organ oxygenation, as reported at the time.
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