I haven't mentioned this here but a cousin called a couple of weeks ago and told me that my brother went to the hospital for what the family thought was a broken foot and that he was diagnosed with COVID while he was there. He's easily 100 lb overweight, so the broken foot didn't surprise me. Apparently he'd been limping around on a sore foot for at least a week. But he didn't seem to have any symptoms, so that's good anyway.

He was just transferred from the hospital to a nursing home because he still needs rehab but isn't urgent anymore and they needed the bed. My aunt got his cell phone to him and I talked to him. It wasn't a broken foot, it was ischemia - lack of blood flow - due to COVID-related blood clots. He had a 4-compartment fasciotomy. (Don't look it up unless you have images turned off or a strong stomach.) They opened up his leg from his knee to his ankle to relieve pressure, and removed multiple clots.

He's been in the hospital for 4 weeks, and is looking at another couple before he can walk without assistance.