Emilia Vexler
06/03/2020 - 7:00
- Clarín.com
- Society
On March 24 at midnight, after seven days of hospitalization for coronavirus, Myriam Chamorro, 53, made the news for being a Cordoba woman who left the central hospital in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Her son Ivan, 33, with cerebral palsy since delivery, had died shortly earlier that day. At 21:54.
The virus had long held various European countries on edge. He caught it in the day center he was attending and her crying got here, where the word "pandemic" sounded somewhat exotic.
In Argentina, meanwhile, the quarantine was only 4 days old, a total of 387 Covid-19 positives and two people dead. The cases were all imported and they were also so few that they had a name, surname and medical history.
Myriam Chamorro
Lucia Correa, from Flores, had returned from a vacation in Israel with her oldest daughter. Patient 0 in the country, from Italy, had been registered on March 3. A day later, like that man, she walked into the Santa Lucia clinic with symptoms just as compatible. He did not come out again until discharge on March 27.
In the same week of those positives, the artist Marcelo Toledo returned from New York, drank mate with his mother and met friends. All of that was allowed. He called SAME when he began to feel 38º on his forehead.
Shortly thereafter, on March 18, Facundo Corvalán, 21, became the first case in Junín and the first Argentine basketball player to test positive for coronavirus. It was also spread in Spain, where he played for Real Canoé. His symptoms began on the plane that was bringing him to Ezeiza. As soon as he arrived in Junín, he received the diagnosis of Covid-19.
On March 15, Roberto Mignone and his wife returned to Mendoza after a trip through Central America. First she "fell". Then it was he who needed a bed in intensive care.
All of these people are not part of a "recovered league." But they were the first to suffer from the pandemic outbreak in the country. And two months after having the virus, with infectious diseases that are still debating whether it leaves sequelae or immunity in those that heal, they come together to tell how they are today.
Myriam was recently discharged definitively - the first was hospital discharge - on April 30, more than a month after her positive test. "It was that I had spent a lot of time with my son and the virus in me was supposed to be much more aggressive than in a normal contagion, let's say. Now you don't believe that," he describes Clarín.
Despite everything, he says so. "I'm fine today . " And for a second it makes the curve of pain that listens to his story flatten.
Even after testing negative three times on the swab, he still had no smell. "It was the same to smell a good perfume as a fried smell," he says. No taste. "All the food was tasteless," he adds. Doctors did not tell him, but he believes that a persistent sequel is staying hoarse "very easily" and having "a lot of throat problems." Like an inflammation. But his story is sharper.
Although her complications were minimal, she was hospitalized by her son. He was with him until the end. Until 9:54 p.m.
"Now it happens to me that I am very aware of what is happening in Argentina. Because I see that people are very angry because the quarantine is not lifted. I am sure that those people did not have anyone close to them with coronavirus. I saw complications in my son The ravages of the disease in the respiratory area ... it is better to stay in quarantine for three months. They have to become aware. I was discharged 27 days ago and, just in case, by myself and by others, I only went out 3 times, "he stresses.
She is still in the Balearic Islands, with her husband and daughter.
Marcelo, 44, is a goldsmith born in Escobar who with his works captivated both the kings of Holland, Máxima and Guillermo, as well as Madonna, Robert De Niro or Antonio Banderas. On March 9, I was back in the country, after the biggest art fair in the US , The Armony Show , in New York. The next day he felt the "flu". Since he had no fever, his prepaid did not want to swab him. Still, he isolated himself at home. Her suspicion was real. He was a new Covid-19 patient in the country.
He speaks just after putting a mask with the native colors on the giant vertical garden of letters BA that is in front of the Obelisk - an artistic intervention endorsed by the City government - and donating his plasma for research.
"I was one of the first infected and one of the first recovered in the country. But 'I fell' later. When I heard of the first death here. I was never in very poor health but today I realize that I might not have escaped. It took a month stop having a lot of cough. My friends started saying to me 'you are very relaxed and you went through a very traumatic situation'. It was scare and not consciousness. Now I realize the pandemic, "he says.
On May 25, the artist Marcelo Toledo donated a giant chinstrap for the BA Verde vertical garden. It is called "A from Argentina".
Corporally, the coronavirus was noticed in him with pneumonia. Then there was the agitation. "Like going up the two floors to my house," he says. And have lost 7 kilos. Today he feels "more creative". It has a large gallery in front of Plaza Dorrego de San Telmo, another now desert tourist spot, with no visitors.
"When am I going to have tourists who can come to the shows?" He asks himself. He has already designed two samples that have to do with this global change that, he says, "sensitized us all."
Facundo is Junín's "patient 0". It also tastes of loneliness. He went from being with other basketball players in the dressing room of the Real Canoé of the LEB Oro League of Spanish ascent, to being in a room of the Hospital Interzonal General de Agudos in that Buenos Aires town. And hence 14 days of isolation in the barbecue area of his house, to avoid infecting his family. His girlfriend is still far away, in Bahia Blanca.
Facundo Corvalán, Argentine basketball player. / Télam
He measures 1.90, weighs 85 kilos and assures that he can compete for hours. "I am no longer agitated by the coronavirus. It did not leave me any sequel. I train as always. I made up for lost days and I am trying to be as prepared as possible when I return to the courts, but at home you can't do much, "he describes.
"My immune system was strong and it is known that this may be why the disease did not affect me much, beyond how badly I had it on the flight to Argentina. The fight, the isolation in my case, was and is for take care of everyone, "he stresses. He was discharged on April 2. He does not know when he will return to Spain, where he settled for last year's preseason.
Lucia Correa
Lucia, 72, says she is "intact." With her dog Lola and the company her three male children, who live with her, she only went out once, two blocks away. "I was one of the first people infected and the worst of the discharge was the uncertainty. But two months after I recovered, I feel physically very well. I did not have any pre-existing disease and I was recovering little by little," he says.
What worries him now is that he hasn't seen his daughters in a long time. "But it is worse for the boys who cannot go out or the people who die alone," she adds. Like his peers in this "league," he recommends that everyone in the risk group avoid going through the same thing. "Let them stay inside."
And the mendocino Roberto? And his wife? Mendoza is a city with 86 positive cases and 9 deaths that, due to these flat numbers, this week enabled bars and restaurants with prior reservation. "When you go through what we went through, you cannot believe that people do not take precautions. Do not believe that because they allowed the pandemic to take to the streets, it has happened," he says. The couple spent 30 days in intensive care.
"We are doing well today, gradually recovering all movements and muscle strength, helped every day with therapists who exercise us," he says. "Also still recovering from other consequences of the virus, such as hearing and sight loss, as well as smell. "
All the people recovered from this note spoke from the physical and the emotional. After going through what everyone fears going through, none spoke as if they were motivational leaders. They did not advise. They warned. They told the most intimate part of the virus in their organs and at the same time abstracted themselves from their own stories. Roberto, who preferred to avoid having his photo published, summed it up perfectly.
"Realizing that they saved your life and that you have a second chance is something that has no words. It only feels in the heart. Like the help that others give, too, just by staying home."
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