Method a lot of health center gos to during the coronavirus crisis have been a one-way journey. Dr. Michael Saag has actually seen it: “The patient is dying alone. There is no family close by,” he stated.
So has his boy, Dr. Harry Saag: “No question over the previous 2 weeks I’ve had the hardest conversations I have actually ever had with households.”
But that reality makes it all the more satisfying when a COVID patient is released– and, eventually, signs up with the ranks of the “recovered.”
Surviving this coronavirus is another thing this father-and-son share, after Harry unwittingly infected his father.
” Both people understood, you know, where the roadway could go if things go downhill,” Harry said.
Correspondent Seth Doane– who himself had actually evaluated favorable for coronavirus— asked Michael Saag, “We are all part of this group now of ‘coronavirus survivors.’ How is it to be on the other side of this?”
” First thing we feel is thankfulness that we made it,” Michael replied. “And after that the second thing is, from those computer games, it’s nearly like, ‘I have a cape of invincibility!’ The fact is, we don’t know that.”
Dr. Saag has dedicated much of his career to studying AIDS at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and sees concerns about potential resistance through the lens of a contagious illness researcher. “There are some viruses, like measles, mumps, rubella, that once you have it you don’t get it once again,” he stated. “However there’s other infections, like Dengue fever, that you can not just get a 2nd time, however the 2nd time the infection and the disease is much worse.”
As Doane discovered after fighting the coronavirus for weeks, and lastly testing unfavorable more than a month later on, preliminary relief paves the way to a new set of concerns.
Fiona Lowenstein, who was hospitalized for COVID-19 back in March, stated, “We do not even understand anyone who’s had this virus and endured, you know, 6 months down the line. So, we have no idea what it’s gon na look like to have survived this infection a year out from getting it, or 2 years out.”
Lowenstein started a support system for thousands of other coronavirus survivors.
” The top kind of shared experience is that signs are sticking around for a very long time,” she stated. “There are also a lot of individuals having comparable psychological health problems. There’s a lot of people stating, ‘My company doe