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Covid-19 survivors: this is not a hoax

2020-09-23T08:41:00.763Z


Covid-19 survivors and families of victims share their very real experiences with the deadly disease.USA: 858 people have died per day from covid 3:41 (CNN) - Even as the United States has already passed 200,000 coronavirus deaths, there are still people who think the coronavirus is a hoax. Covid-19 survivors and the families of the victims disagree and share their very real experiences with the deadly disease. Ann and Marvin Robinson, a married couple in Casper, Wyoming, contracted the virus n


USA: 858 people have died per day from covid 3:41

(CNN) -

Even as the United States has already passed 200,000 coronavirus deaths, there are still people who think the coronavirus is a hoax.

Covid-19 survivors and the families of the victims disagree and share their very real experiences with the deadly disease.

Ann and Marvin Robinson, a married couple in Casper, Wyoming, contracted the virus nearly three months ago.

Marvin, 73, still has shortness of breath and they are both battling fatigue.

“We have friends who still believe it is a hoax.

They think it will disappear on Election Day, ”Ann, 72, told CNN's Brianna Keilar on Tuesday.

"This is trying to convince people that the 200,000 people who have died were important," Ann said of her efforts to assure people of the reality of the virus.

Her friends "kind of dismiss the fact that older people have it and have underlying conditions, that they were going to die anyway," Ann said.

Well, I am an older person and I have underlying conditions, and I intend to live many more years.

As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 6.88 million people had contracted the virus across the country and at least 200,477 people had died.

Covid-19 is now the second leading cause of death in the US, right after heart disease, according to the Institute for Health Assessment and Metrics (IHME) at the University of Washington.

Heather-Elizabeth Brown, a 35-year-old police chaplain and corporate trainer in the Detroit area, spent about 100 days in the hospital with COVID-19.

More than a month of her hospital stay was spent on a ventilator and in a coma in intensive care.

He said he still has trouble breathing and fatigue.

"Simple things like taking the stairs or walking to my car or outside to look for something overwhelm me, and the fatigue factor is also a big part of the aftermath," Brown said.

"I can't seem to get through a whole day without having to stop, lie down and rest, simply because I'm absolutely exhausted from doing simple everyday tasks like, you know, taking a shower or making breakfast."

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"I absolutely want people to know that covid is a real disease," Brown told Keilar.

«It is not false, it is not invented, it is not a conspiracy.

It is something that can be spread and it is something that can be very dangerous.

Sondra Wolfe lost her husband to covid-19.

She is frustrated that the pandemic has become a political problem in the United States.

"People see the numbers and a lot of them don't care," Wolfe told CNN last week.

"I want to put a human face and a family, what a family is going through, the pain this has caused, and maybe change some minds that this is something real."

Diana Berrent was one of the first in her New York community to be diagnosed with the virus on March 18, she said.

He founded a support group for covid survivors, Survivors Corps, which has more than 90,000 members.

At the end of August, Berrent “still had terrible gastrointestinal problems, huge headaches.

And what feels like a deep ear infection, "she told CNN's Jake Tapper.

“But that pales in comparison to what many of our members are experiencing.

Really dramatic things, neurological problems, tachycardia, things as dramatic as covid-initiated diabetes and covid-initiated lupus.

What he wants people to know, he said, is that "it's not about getting the flu or dying.

There is a very, very large group in the middle, which seems to make up a large proportion of people who contract covid, who are not recovering.

You don't want to end up in that group of people.

When you see the stories of people in Survivor's Corps of, for example, a 25-year-old who is writing a living will and "doesn't think he'll ever see his wedding day, you'll change your mind," Berrent said.

Maureen Fagan's sister, Adeline Fagan, 28, a second-year obstetrics and gynecology resident living in Houston, died Saturday after battling COVID-19 for a few months.

Fagan's family has been speaking out ever since in an effort to save other lives.

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"They could all be Adeline and that's the scary part of it," Fagan told CNN's Kate Bolduan, asking people to follow the guidelines to protect other people.

"If you can do something as simple as wearing a mask, social distancing, even just using hand sanitizer, do your part," he said.

"I think you have the right to do that, as a human being and trying to be a good person."

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Source: cnnespanol

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