"Survival" here being, of course, not a black-and-white thing:

    > Outcome and Follow-Up
    > On day 59, the boy was discharged to inpatient neurorehabilitation. At 6-month follow-up, he was giving short commands, standing without support, riding a tricycle, eating soft foods, and relearning simple tasks. Peripheral neuromuscular weakness continued to improve.

▲ rob74 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, I already feared that when I read "the child recovered" instead of "the child fully recovered" in the summary.

	▲	21asdffdsa12 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		The dreaded "Patient survived" comes to mind, that is so nice in crime-stats and hospital-stats nowadays, but does not really communicate what "ten years writhing in agony barely held in check with massive opioid doses until death" or some vegetable limbo is actually for the individual.