>>'s been seven weeks since aaron decepi has seen his husband, raoul perra. >> i've been carrying around his wedding ring, i'm going to give that back. >> despite being healthy and young at 39, raoul was whisked into the icu for what became a hard-fought battle with covid-19. with pneumonia in both lungs, he would spend 30 days on a ventilator. >> the closer i get to this actually happening, the more real it becomes. i think that this whole experience has been so surreal, it'sinee it. >> as cases continue to rise throhout theco t 200 deaths by the fall. tonight we meet two fighters, neither elderly near infirmed, pushed to the brink by covid-19. their families forced to watch from afar. >> it's the longest five minutes i've ever had in my life. >> reporter: their journeys, reminders of how much we have to learn about this silent threat. and for some, leaving the hospital is just the beginning of a long road back. what's keeping you up at night? >> the fear that my husband is not going to come home to me. and then of course just the fear that this is going to get so much worse. >> we firs