Paul Alexander, the man who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years after contracting polio, died Monday after being hospitalized for Covid last month, his friends and family said. He was 78.

Paul Alexander, an American man who lived in an iron lung for more than 70 years after catching polio, has died at age 78. In Alexander's case, the infection left him paralyzed from the neck down and ...

Polio struck Paul Alexander in 1952, when he was just 6 years old. Within days, the disease robbed him of the use of his body. But he fought through the illness, using an iron lung for more than 70 ...

(Gray News) – Paul Alexander, one of the last people who lived inside an iron lung, has died, according to reports. He was 78 years old. Paul Alexander contracted polio when he was 6 years old in 1952 ...

Paul Alexander, an American man who lived in an iron lung for more than 70 years after catching polio, has died at age 78. Alexander caught the viral disease when he was 6 years old, in the summer of ...

"More than anything, I believe he would want others to know they are capable of great things," Alexander's friend Christopher Ulmer told NPR. Polio struck Paul Alexander in 1952, when he was just 6 ...