A doctor who contracted COVID-19 and survived spoke of her experience saying the illness felt like a “very, very bad dose of the flu.”
Clare Gerada, a General Practitioner and former chairperson of the Council of the Royal College of General Practitioners, told Sky News she contracted the illness caused by the new #coronavirus at the beginning of March in New York.
She described it as a grim illness, adding she felt “really unwell.”
Gerada said her severe #symptoms included a high temperature and aches and pains but she didn’t experience any further complications such as shortness of breath.
Gerada is now back at work and stressed that many health practicioners were working without the appropriate protective equipment, placing them at risk of contracting the disease.
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