Thieving American Cuck was Released by North Korea in a Coma After 17 Short Months
AMERICAN UNABLE TO DO THE FULL 15 YEARS OF HARD LABOR
University of Virginia student Otto Warmbier, who spent 17 long months in detention in North Korea, is finally coming home — in a coma.
North Korea sentenced Warmbier in March 2016 to 15 years in prison with hard labor for “hostile acts against the state” after he apparently tried to remove a political propaganda sign inside a hotel in Pyongyang. His family in Cincinnati recently was told after his trial that the 22-year-old contracted botulism and was given a sleeping pill. He never woke up, North Korean officials told American envoys.
But it’s unclear what exactly happened to Warmbier and what his medical condition will be when he arrives in the United States.
Whether the student actually had botulism — a rare and serious disease not typically associated with loss of consciousness — remains unconfirmed. And how a sleeping aid could have triggered a coma is also questionable. What experts can say definitively is that the prognosis is grim for someone who has been comatose for such a lengthy period.
Bernat said the prognosis for recovery from a coma or vegetative state depends on not just what caused it but how long it has lasted. After a year, a person's chance of full recovery would be dim.
“I would put it in the category of being extremely unlikely,” agreed Ariane Lewis, an assistant professor of neurology and neurosurgery at New York University’s Langone School of Medicine. “But I wouldn’t say it’s impossible. After protracted periods of time of being unarousable, that moves it further and further away from being possible