COVID-19 patient whose wife sued a Minnesota hospital for trying to take him off a ventilator has died

• Scott Quiner's wife sued a Minnesota hospital after it wanted to take him off a ventilator.
• He was then brought to a Texas hospital, where he was kept on life support.

A COVID-19 patient whose wife sued a Minnesota hospital that wanted to take him off a ventilator has died, the Star Tribune reported.

Scott Quiner, 55, died on Saturday at a hospital in Houston, Texas, where he was brought earlier this month amid the legal battle, the Tribune reported. He was not vaccinated.

The family's lawyer, Marjorie Holsten, told the Tribune she doesn't know when exactly Quiner lost consciousness but that he still showed signs of life when his daughter spoke to him on FaceTime last week.

"She was saying 'Dad I love you' and his eyes welled with tears," Holsten told the Tribute. "His brain was there."

Quiner's wife, Anne, sued Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, earlier this month for wanting to take him off a ventilator after he showed no signs of improvement for two months.

A judge issued a restraining order on the Minnesota hospital on January 13, blocking it from turning off his life-support machine. Quiner was then flown to Texas for medical care on January 15, The Washington Post reported.

A spokesperson for Allina Health, which operates Mercy Hospital, confirmed Quiner's death to the Tribune.

Quiner contracted COVID-19 on October 30, according to a GoFundMe page set up for the family.