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Kloots, Cordero and their 11-month-old son, Elvis, recently moved from New York City to Los Angeles so that Cordero could star in a West Coast production of \"Rock Of Ages,\" which he also starred in on Broadway.

Cordero, who also appeared in Broadway's \"Waitress\" and \"Bullets Over Broadway,\" went to the hospital on March 30 for what he believed was pneumonia, but later tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. To help his breathing, the actor was put into a medically-induced coma.

\"He didn't have a fever. He didn't have a cough. He had a sense of smell, he had a sense of taste, so we really didn't think it was COVID, especially his no preexisting conditions,\" Kloots told \"Good Morning America\" last week. \"Very shortly, after about only two days, he was on a ventilator.\"

There have been several complications since then. Last month, doctors amputated Cordero's right leg after blood thinners used to help with clotting caused other problems, Kloots said. She also said that his lungs have been \"severely damaged\" by the virus and resemble those of a 50-year smoker.

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I really miss this guy. It’s day 49 in the hospital for Nick. We have a new hashtag #offthevent because our new goal for Nick is for his lung infection to clear up so that we can start breathing trials and get him off the ventilator! These are big goals, but I BELIEVE! We have an army behind him that cheered, sang and prayed for him to wake up so now we need to believe that this to can happen! He’s not done! #coderocky

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However, on May 12, Kloots, who had been using the hashtag #WakeUpNick, announced that Cordero was awake.

\"I can't express how happy I am today,\" Kloots told ABC News' Michael Strahan in an interview that aired the next day on \"GMA.\"

\"They always end it with, 'We just need that mental status. We need to wake him up,\" Kloots said of her conversations with her husband's doctors. \"And it's just been this heaviness that's kind of held over us for this time.\"

On Wednesday, Kloots got emotional, told her followers that Cordero \"had a bad morning.\"

\"I am asking again for all the prayers -- mega prayers right now,\" she said. \"I know that this virus is not gonna get him down. It's not how his story ends, so just keep us in your thoughts and prayers today. Thank you.\"

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