the effects of coronavirus infections can be horrible. That experiencing suffered COVID-19 people even after recovery, said some young people who still cannot recover from the virus caused serious damage to their health.
researcher from Newcastle (UK) Daniel Greene is still suffering from a severe viral infection that struck it in March and forced him to cough up blood, tells CNN.
Three months ago, 28-year-old Greene traveled with friends in the group when they toured the French Alps. He fell ill with symptoms Covid-19 and, like many patients with coronavirus, spent several weeks in bed.
However, unlike other people, Greene has not returned to normal. Since then, he has from time to time experiences extreme fatigue. Every day he’s feeling foggy, difficulty concentrating and problems with short-term memory, which complicate the reading, writing and speech.
“the Breath is very difficult, says green. – I don’t feel that I have full ability to breathe. If I go out for a walk for a minute, and I was really exhausted”.
About 80% of cases of coronavirus face with a mild or asymptomatic version COVID-19, CNN cites the opinion of Professor of medicine Medical school McGovern at Texas a & m University Dr. Louis Ostroski-Sahara. But there are other 20%, “about which we are concerned”, says an expert: “one in five patients gets a severe form of the disease”.
as soon as the number of cases of coronavirus among young people is increasing, Daniel green and his peers want to share stories about the damage that caused them COVID-19.
These patients may potentially experience permanent lung damage, including scarring and reduced lower respiratory capacity.
green got a note from the doctor saying that he should not return to work full time, but he takes on projects when he can.
“Two weeks ago, I had a strong sensation in my chest,” he says. “It seemed to me that I can’t breathe. It was the worst part.”
last week while riding in the car, he felt weak, and he had to pull over to call an ambulance to have him taken away. Fear of losing consciousness behind the wheel, he took a break from driving.
He joined a support group Long Covid, which shares its experience with more than 6,000 other people from around the world, suffering from similar symptoms after infection COVID-19.
His girlfriend, a nurse, lives in town, but except for a few walks with the observance of a distance, they have not seen each other for several months.
CNN tells another story: when 28-year-old Morgan swank sick Christmas, she wrote to her friends: “I’m dying. I never felt so before.”
swank had a fever for three weeks and she lost her sense of smell for nine days. Being sick with the flu, she lost consciousness at the airport during international travel.
non-Smokers, who worked three days a week, she’s not used to fighting for air.
In the end, Swank received a positive result for antibodies to COVID-19 in April, but her lungs were damaged due to heavy cough.
She returned to training, and now holds inhalers with their Boxing gloves in my gym bag. Inhalers help her finish her training.
“should I use the inhaler every couple of minutes to spice up my lungs,” she says.
Even short conversations can be a problem for her. “I hear it in your voice, just talking to you” she said in a telephone interview.
Her biggest concern is getting sick again, and she feels that her immune system is now compromised.
“I would really like to see people constantly wearing masks,” says Swank. – If I get another respiratory infection such as the flu, and my lungs will suffer from this, I may have to go to the hospital.”
Another story is about a 29-year-old lawyer, who has tested positive for COVID-19 twice. When Jordan Josie had contracted the coronavirus for the first time, he felt that he was suffocating. The disease partially destroyed one of his lungs.
“Shortness of breath was my biggest problem, he says. – Coronavirus completely takes away from you energy. You always feel overwhelmed and tired. I could sleep for 13 hours.”
Working as a lawyer in Macon, Georgia, Josie 1 APR has tested positive for the coronavirus. He shared details about his high temperature and sharp pain in the breast with a local newspaper.
In the end, he started to feel a little better and gave a positive result for antibodies. He passed the blood plasma, so that others could also benefit from its immunity.
But then, at the end of June and returned the same shortness of breath. And he again gave a positive result.
“I just sat down and shook his head – he told. – I didn’t want to go through that again. It was horrible.”
“Nothing in my test did not indicate that this was the second strain, he says. – I thought, “How is that possible?” And really, no one knows.”
One of the things that irritate him, it is a common view that will people right after they get infected with coronavirus and get a positive result for antibodies.
“I did not buy it, he said. My doctor says I may even get a positive result in the third time.”
Like many in my 20 years, DJosie and his wife loved to meet up with friends for dinner before heading to a concert, to a bar or club. With his positive result twice and with a positive outcome – since February this occurs.
“This is not a joke. I’m young and healthy and all of it happened to me, says Josie. The coronavirus is now a much greater threat than when I got sick. And all this is due to the fact that people go to bars, night clubs and big parties”.
Another young person, College student Kevin Garcia from new York, which tells CNN, 24 years old, he’s struggling with long-term consequences COVID-19. Kevin desperately wants his peers to safety, as the number of infections rising again.
According to him, due to the effects of the disease it is functioning only at 75%, and even just to climb the stairs for him a serious problem.
the Symptoms appeared he on March 25, when he had to call an ambulance, “I felt something foreign in his body.”
a week and a half it seemed that his body led the “total war”.
After more than two weeks of body aches, fatigue and gastrointestinal disorders he managed to survive. But his new life is different from the former.
“I saw the doctors took out the corpses every day. I heard the ambulance, probably 50 times a day, – says the young man. I’m glad I’m alive because he died a lot of people my age.”
Kevin also against the traditional narrative that young people can get sick to gain immunity and return to his former life. And he wants the world to know that pochkovidnye symptoms are not imaginary.
In December he will turn 25 years old, and he never imagined that he will celebrate a quarter of a century so modest, and almost certainly no party.
“After the Spanish flu, we had the roaring 20-ies. This may take place after the coronavirus. It temporarily,” he said. “But don’t risk your life. You can die from this.”
His call to the youth is that if young people don’t want to hear it from the health officials, let them hear his advice: wear a mask, avoid crowds, wash hands, do not touch your face.
“I don’t think someone needs to see someone dies because of one or two hours of fun,” added the young man.
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