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Friday 14 February 2020

What it's like to get coronavirus: Student from Wuhan reveals his three-week ordeal including 102F fever, pains 'in every part of my body' and a cough so bad 'I thought I would die'

[Daily Mail]: A coronavirus survivor has lifted the lid on what it's like to contract the killer disease - including a soaring temperature, pains, and a cough so bad 'I thought I might die'.

The 21-year-old student, going under the pseudonym Tiger Ye, said he first noticed symptoms on January 21 while at home in Wuhan, ground zero for the disease.

Ye said that the first signs he was ill came when he was too weak to finish his dinner, and noticed that he had a raised temperature.

With news of a new and potentially lethal virus spreading, Ye took himself to the city's Tongji Hospital to get tested - only to find a waiting room filled with dozens of other people who also feared they were infected.

Facing an hours-long wait, Ye said he went to another hospital to get some medication that he thought might help, before quarantining himself at home.

Speaking about the first four days of his illness to Bloomberg, he said: 'I suffered from a high fever and pains that tortured every part of my body'....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...