An A's minor league coach's battle with the coronavirus took a positive turn.
Webster Garrison now is breathing without a ventilator after needing one for more than three weeks, Nikki Trudeaux -- his fiancee -- tweeted Thursday.
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"[He] is now breathing on his own [100 percent] and his oxygen saturation level is at 100 percent," Trudeaux wrote.
The San Francisco Chronicle's Susan Slusser reported on March 28 that Garrison tested positive for the coronavirus, and the A's announced the same day that a minor league staff member -- who they did not name -- had been hospitalized after a positive test. Trudeaux posted on Facebook on March 27 that she, too, was "physically suffering from the virus as well."
She tweeted on March 31 that Garrison had been "100 percent" dependent upon the ventilator a day prior, but that he already was making progress.
Garrison, 54, completed his 21st season as an A's minor league manager or coach in 2019. He managed the Stockton Ports last season and was set to manage one of Oakland's Arizona rookie short-season teams in 2020. Garrison played five games for the A's in 1996.
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The A's closed their minor league facility in Arizona for two weeks last month after Garrison's diagnosis, Slusser reported. Garrison left the A's complex on March 13, and the team asked players and coaches to self-quarantine through March 27.