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I'm a 30-year-old doctor and I tested #positive for #COVID19 – I caught it last week.
Let me tell you, it hasn't been fun.
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Let me tell you, it hasn't been fun.
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It started off with vague symptoms: a bit of a headache, some lower back pain. But by the end of the day I was coughing, I felt feverish, and I measured a temperature of 38.5°C. I started isolation and told all my contacts about this. Did some online shopping.
I could get a swab the following day through the hospital I work for. Testing happens in a secluded hospital building, so I had to physically go there whilst isolated. I waited for my temperature to drop and then I cycled through London with a mask on.
⚠️Doctors warn that #anosmia (loss of sense of smell) and #ageusia (diminished sense of taste) have emerged as peculiar telltale signs of #COVID19 and are possible markers of #coronavirus infection.
In #Wuhan, ENT and eye doctors DIED in large numbers.
nytimes.com/2020/03/22/hea…
In #Wuhan, ENT and eye doctors DIED in large numbers.
nytimes.com/2020/03/22/hea…
U.K. physicians cite reports from other countries indicating that significant numbers of #coronavirus patients experienced #anosmia: in #SouthKorea, 30% of 2,000 patients who tested positive for #COVID19 had anosmia as their major presenting symptom (these were MILD cases).💥
