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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Jun 20, 2020, 07:39 PM Jun 2020

When he tested positive for coronavirus, he prepared for 2 weeks of misery.

Months later, he was still sick.

Scott Krakower started getting the chills and sweats at his Long Island home in mid-April. He thought it was a cold, until he couldn’t taste anything.

Once the coronavirus test came back positive, Krakower, a medical expert in child and adolescent psychiatry, prepared himself for two weeks of misery. But now, almost three months later, he still gets those chills. He also has a cough, shortness of breath and trouble eating and swallowing.

Krakower, 40, is part of a growing group of COVID-19 patients who are suffering from its symptoms for weeks, and even months, after the standard recovery time.

“Most people get the virus and after a few weeks their symptoms resolve,” said Dr. Robert Glatter, emergency physician at Lenox hill Hospital in New York City. “We’re seeing a different spectrum where people don’t recover, and they have symptoms from weeks to months.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tested-positive-coronavirus-prepared-2-123009299.html
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When he tested positive for coronavirus, he prepared for 2 weeks of misery. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
Brad's got that virus right now! denem Jun 2020 #1
Me May Soon Be Spending More Time With Family ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #3
Parscale tested positive? (n/t) SMC22307 Jun 2020 #5
Nope. He's preparing for two weeks of misery. denem Jun 2020 #6
Gotcha. Might not take two weeks... SMC22307 Jun 2020 #7
The one person in my social group who got it really bad... Salviati Jun 2020 #2
How sad. Lenox Hill COVID episode to be released 6/24 on Netflix... SMC22307 Jun 2020 #4

Salviati

(6,059 posts)
2. The one person in my social group who got it really bad...
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 07:44 PM
Jun 2020

... has had a significant amount of nerve damage in his arm. At worst it was down to about 20% of normal function, now it's back up to about 60% about 10 weeks later, it might be a year before it's back to full function.

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