‘Polio Paul,' read name Paul Alexander, has lived inside 7ft Iron lung for 70 years - but he's invented a new way to breathe so that he can leave (Image: Dallas Morning News/Youtube) But Paul lived.

Paul Alexander — known around the world as Polio Paul — died on Monday after reportedly catching Covid-19 but his iron lung was his 'cocoon' that kept him alive for 70 years ...

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Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the iron lung supported patients whose lungs were weakened or paralyzed by polio.

A LAWYER who lived in an iron lung for seven decades after being struck down with polio has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander - widely known as Polio Paul - died on Monday after contracting Covid.

Paul spent the next seven decades in an iron lung. In March 2023, he was declared the longest surviving iron lung patient in the world by the Guinness World Records. Paul's ambitions were not ...

FILE - In this Friday, April 27, 2018 photo, attorney Paul Alexander chats with caregiver and friend Kathryn Gaines as he drinks coffee and she eats breakfast beside his iron lung at his home in ...

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.

Paul Alexander, who lived inside an iron lung for over 70 years and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78, according to his brother Philip ...

Paul Alexander, who spent the vast majority of the past 70 years in an iron lung and defied expectations by becoming a lawyer and author, died Monday afternoon at the age of 78, according to his ...