Ventilator tubes are attached to a COVID-19 patientAP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File A COVID-19 patient was relocated to a Texas hospital over the weekend in a bid to keep him on life support. Last week, Mercy Hospital in Minnesota said they would disconnect Scott Quiner from a ventilator. A judge ruled in favor of Quiner's wife, who petitioned to move Quiner and keep him on life support. A COVID-19 patient was flown from Minnesota to Texas over the weekend after a judge issued an order preventing the hospital from disconnecting the man from life support, according to a report from Star Tribune.The patient, 55-year-old Scott Quiner, has been on a ventilator at Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, Minnesota since November 6, 2021, the local paper reported.