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June 29, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States, 27-year-old Timothy McGuire was working on launching a business with a professor at his alma mater Andrews University. As the pandemic hit, Timothy and his fiancée Lucero decided to visit family out of state. But just five minutes into their drive, they were in a terrible car crash.

Timothy was rushed to the emergency department at Lakeland Medical Center, St. Joseph. He had a long list of really serious injuries: a broken leg, broken collarbone, broken sternum, facial fractures, skull fractures, traumatic brain injury, lacerations, including his right shoulder and right ear, affected eyesight and hearing, spinal fluid coming out of his ear, jaw injury and teeth damage, bruised lung, and major loss of blood...

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