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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My cousin (32, healthy) got it in May.  She had a “mild” case (high fever lasting for days, constant, violent coughing fits, prescription inhaler, off work for 3 weeks and could barely get out of bed for the 1st 2 weeks).  Months later she still needs an inhaler if she does anything too laborious Like walking upstairs quickly.  She had to cut back her hours at work.  She needs more sleep than she used to.  She has reported depression and mental fog that is starting to gradually lift only in the last month or so.  We are hoping the other symptoms will eventually dissipate and that she will be able to be as active as she was before.  Right now she says she feels like an old woman.

Not everyone who “recovers” had an easy time.[/quote]

Why do you say mild? I know several people who had mild symptoms like headache and malaise and recovered without issue. Like thousands of others.[/quote]

Because my cousin was never hospitalized and never required experimental medication, so she is listed in these types of statistics as “mild.”  Like thousands of others.  The point is not that nobody gets COVID-19 and recovers quickly and easily.  The point is that people who look at the statistics and say “only a small percentage of people die so it’s NBD” are overlooking the many, many people who fall in the gray area between hospitalization/death and NBD.  [/quote]

Less people are dying partly to better treatments and we've killed off some of the most unhealthy - old.  [/quote]

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