Washington Post: Damar Hamlin is awake, has made a ‘fairly remarkable recovery,’ doctors say

“It’s been a long and difficult road for the last three days,” said William Knight IV, MD, professor in the school’s Department of Emergency Medicine. “He has been very sick and has made a fairly remarkable recovery and improvement.”

Knight said that Hamlin, 24, is showing overall clinical improvement “related to not just his vital signs but a lot of his other individual organ recovery.”

When Hamlin asked about the winner of Monday’s game, Pritts said, those with him at the time responded that Hamlin had won in life.

“It’s not only that the lights are on,” Pritts said. “We know that he’s home. And it appears that all the cylinders are firing, which is greatly gratifying for all of us.”

The doctors treating Hamlin cautioned that many steps remain in his recovery.

“He continues to be critically ill,” Pritts said, “and continues to undergo intensive care...He still has significant progress that he needs to make. But this marks a really good turning point in his ongoing care...There are many, many steps still ahead of him. From our standpoint, we would like to see him continue to improve, to be completely breathing on his own and then to be ready to be discharged from the hospital.”