I had a mild case of C19 & was in isolation from 3/18-5/31. My 11-wk bout included constant low-grade fevers, the kind of exhaustion that sometimes made eating onerous, brain fog that made numbers difficult to track, tachycardia, weird sensations like a hyper-tender scalp, and
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respiratory struggles, like the time I went from sound asleep to sitting straight up, gasping for air. I initially didn't understand that last one (have I mentioned the brain fog?) & only later went "holy God, what if I hadn't woken up, or hadn't been able to text my husband
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[who slept in the basement for those 11 weeks], what if, what if, what if." It took weeks to get back to anything approaching normal capacity & honestly, I'm still not there - my post-COVID fatigue is the one factor around which I & my entire family has to schedule everything.
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And here's my point: That was what "mild" looked like for me - & I was never able to get tested, so I'm not counted anywhere.

I don't know what these heartless bastards think C19 looks like, but death is not the only bad thing. And, officially, there are 6.26 million of us.
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