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Covid-19 and its symptoms 3458

• Special
• Apr 05, 2020

The Disease and Symptoms:

I. First symptoms: dry cough and/or low fever.
Then sore throat, hoarse voice.
II. The defining symptom is, however, breathing difficulty.
Would come later.
Would call for hospitalisation; may even require use of ventilator.
III. 80% of the infected will get cured without, or with little, medical intervention.
5% would get critical.
Roughly.
IV. A large proportion of the infected won't exhibit any symptoms at all.
But, they'll infect others.
V. Those above 60 are specially vulnerable.
The degree of vul

A Patient Narrates her Recovery from Coronavirus 3046

• Special
• Mar 12, 2020

An American woman who has recovered from the novel coronavirus has a simple message for people who are worried: Don't panic -- but do think about high-risk individuals and stay home if you feel ill.

Elizabeth Schneider lives in Seattle, the biggest city of Washington state, which has the most deaths in the United States from the disease sweeping the globe.

The 37-year-old, who has a PhD in bioengineering, said she was sharing her story "to give people a little bit of hope" through her own relatively mild experience with the infection, which she treated herself from