Coronavirus
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One of the first coronavirus patients in the US describes his experience..
He struggled to breathe. His lungs filled with fluid, and nurses in hazmat-style suits had to drain them every two hours.
The worst part, he said, was the feeling of choking. “You feel like you’re asphyxiating, and you’re panicking because you can’t breathe.”
He kept telling himself, “Just get through the next hour, the next hour, the next hour.”
At one point, he was aware that a priest in protective gear was about to administer last rites. He wrote a note to his wife saying that if his lungs collapsed, he did not want to be put on life support.
“I was one inch from death,” he told the WSJ on Tuesday.
“It’s alarming when I hear people minimize it as a simple cold,” he said. “It almost killed me.”