Now that doctors worldwide have several months of experience treating patients with COVID-19, patterns are emerging, giving clues about how the illness manifests itself. Doctors are seeing more patients with rapid, unexpected development of severe symptoms that have returned (and are worse), lasting for weeks with seemingly no end in sight.
Felicity Callard, a geographer at the University of Glasgow, who has COVID-19 and is on day 77 of living with the virus, shares a chilling notion. She says people think that” because most cases are mild and brief,“, it bolsters the belief that only the sick and elderly need to isolate themselves, and that everyone else can get infected and be done with it. She believes that it establishes a framework in which ‘not hiding’ from the disease looks like a manageable and sensible undertaking.”
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