Cheers, claps and songs: Watch how hospitals are celebrating coronavirus recoveries

Hospitals across the country are finding special ways to celebrate when someone beats the new coronavirus.

More than 28,000 people in the U.S. have recovered from COVID-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and Medicine.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues and more people end up hospitalized for COVID-19, health care workers are celebrating recoveries.

Some line hallways to clap and cheer as patients leave the hospitals or the ICU. In other hospitals, songs play over the speakers to signal another person has survived.

In Alabama, a 48-year-old became the first COVID-19 patient to be well enough to be moved from the ICU to a “regular medical room,” the East Alabama Medical Center said on Facebook.

“When he was wheeled out of the ICU today, EAMC employees were there to cheer him on,” the medical center said. “Late this afternoon, he said ‘I am still weak, but feeling pretty good. I talked to my wife for the first time and that was wonderful.’”

Here is what hospitals and health care workers are doing to celebrate COVID-19 recovery.

This story was originally published April 10, 2020 at 8:26 PM with the headline "Cheers, claps and songs: Watch how hospitals are celebrating coronavirus recoveries."