What is it like to have the coronavirus? | COVID-19 Special

The coronavirus has not been selective with its targets. And each case is its own story. When to use ventilators in critical cases, for example, differs from patient to patient. So what does it feel like to have COVID-19? What exactly happens in the body, and are there any long-term health effects?
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[dwnews]

What would you like to know about the coronavirus pandemic? #askDerrick

[phoenixluna]

Lung damage and volume decreases. That's a long term problem

[poet]

Turn the music off when reporting ... can’t hear the patients. Music is totally unnecessary.

[lajwantishahani]

My mother had contracted triple pneumonia years ago at the age of 63 with no other health history, in which 25% of her lung cells had died due to collagen breakdown. With reduced oxygen flow to the kidneys leading to renal failure, this led to reduced blood flow to the brain causing cell breakdown in some areas with simulated Parkinson's and palsy. Other side effects included severe arthritis in the hands besides other joints. We had to keep an oxygen cylinder at home for the next three years during which she had to be hospitalized twice for emergency intensive care. The doctors had told me at the onset that her care at home would require us to treat her like a 6-month old baby for as long as she lived, which was three years. This may sound bleak but I would expect anyone in the ICU from Covid-19 to suffer at least some of these after-effects with a reduced life expectancy.

[cfarrell]

Brilliant segment. Dr Klaus was a pleasure to listen to...clear, confident, extremely knowledgable and didn't over complicate answers - Great journalism. Thanks from Australia ✌Stay safe out there

[Questchaun]

Sad part of this we won't know the long lasting effects for decades to come.

[NonPremiumID]

"I looked blue, like a Smurph". - Disturbing

[rickvanderloos]

Even dustmasks help contain contaminated droplets flying over distances between 2 and 7! Meters. With such a mask you do not so much protect yourself but we could protect others. The more people wear mouth covering it would do a lot of good to contain the disease much more effectively when measures will be lifted to any extent.

[declup]

Thank you, DW News. This reporting on COVID-19 has been among the most informative and professional I've seen.

[landhausidyll]

I'm going to wear a mask whether it's implemented or not. I don't care if people on the street feels uncomfortable me walking around with it. I do care about the people in my life who are at high risk. I don't understand why it's such a big deal. I believe an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

[cherylphillips]

That was probably more informative than anything I've heard. thank you

[theth]

Also scary is the up-to-80% of people who have it but are asymptomatic.

[retta]

Your lungs can heal but it can take months. I inhaled lime dust when making cement and couldn't walk across the room without holding the wall and huffing and puffing, for at least 3 months. It was so awful. I'm also asthmatic and have a hiatus hernia, so I dread getting this.

[Kromhell]

For a person that can walk with 200kg up a mountain :))....
Not being able to get out of bed and breathe for 3 days and being put into air therapy and staying in bed and breathing like after a marathon ....for a 34 years quite scary!

[gamingtonight]

Listen to people who nearly died from the flu epidemic in 2018-19. Very similar sounding. And let's not forget, 107, 000 died in that flu epidemic! It's taken one month longer to reach the same number of COVID-19 deaths. Yet we ignore one, and the other we get so paranoid, we are happy to have a global economic depression, even though it will kill million's more than the virus ever could!

[ernstschwaig]

This was the best short report I've seen so far. Just useful facts. Thanks a lot.

[artintelligence]

Is there a visible difference or simptomatic difference in between the walking pneumonia and
covid-19 pneumonia?

[donnaml]

I’ve been wondering about this. I had a feeling that there would be long term damage. And I have a feeling that you can get it again.

[comment]

I'm reusing my masks after putting them through a few cycles in my Uvc sanitizer. The American cdc says they can be sanitized safely that way. There's lots of info out there if you look it up.

[RealEstateInsider]

What is it like to get the corona virus? For most, they don't even know they have it.
And what about long term damage? No one can possibly know at this point.