Paola Castillo spent 79 days in the hospital after she contracted the coronavirus and spent more than a month on a ventilator. FOX NEWS - A 24-year-old coronavirus patient who was hospitalized for nearly three months and placed on a ventilator with "dismal odds" of survival was released from a Texas hospital Wednesday.“I saw a light,” Paola Castillo said while recuperating after 79-days at Medical City North Hills in Dallas, according to a hospital press release.