Most coronavirus patients recover, still anxiety, fear loom

Amid all fears, quarantines and stockpiling of food, it has been easy to igre fact that more than 60,000 people have recovered from coronavirus spreing around globe.

disease can cause varying degrees of illness and is especially troublesome for older ults and people with existing health problems, who are at risk of severe effects, including pneumonia. But for most of those affected, coronavirus creates only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough, with vast majority recovering from virus.

According to World Health Organization, people with mild illness recover in about two weeks, while those with more severe ailments may take three to six weeks to rebound. In mainland China, where virus first exploded, more than 80,000 people have been diagsed, but more than 58,000 alrey have recovered.

Because difference in impact can be so great, global health authorities have difficult task of alerting public to virus' dangers without creating panic.

Alrey, widespre consequences of virus have been staggering, sending shock waves through world's financial markets. Global oil prices sustained ir worst percent losses since beginning of Gulf War in 1999, and new restrictions were imposed in Italy and in Israel as Holy Week approached.

But even some of most vulnerable patients can fight ir way through disease.

Charlie Campbell’s far, 89-year-old Eugene Campbell, has been diagsed with coronavirus and is hospitalized in Edmonds, Washington. Charlie Campbell said his far's doctor is cautiously optimistic, ding, “Under rmal circumstances, he would discharge my d, but se aren’t rmal circumstances.”

Eugene Campbell came to hospital from Life Care Center, a nursing home in Kirkland that has been linked to nineteen of Washington state’s 23 coronavirus deaths.

“We went and saw him yesterday and he looked pretty good,” Campbell said, ting that his far is breathing rmally and his vital signs and heart rate are good. “He may be oldest person to recover from coronavirus.”

For some who’ve been quarantined, anxiety and dre that y will become stigmatized by friends, neighbors and co-workers have me m reluctant to ackwledge even most modest health impact. A few patients with virus who were interviewed by Associated Press — all of m passengers on Diamond Princess cruise ship that ended up quarantined off Japan — described symptoms that were stronger than a regular cold or flu.

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“It’s been a 2 on a scale of 10,” said Carl Goldman, hospitalized in Omaha, Nebraska, since Feb. 17, after developing a 103-degree fever on a chartered flight from Japan to U.S.

Goldman is staying hydrated with Gatore. He said he continued coughing more than two weeks after he first got sick, but would probably only have missed one day of work if he h been diagsed with cold or flu. He stays active by pacing in his room, trying to match his pre-sickness routine of 10,000 daily steps on pedometer.

“I totally get this is where I need to be and I need to be cleared of this before I’m released,” he said.

Greg Yerex, who was diagsed along with his wife, Rose Yerex, on Diamond Princess, said he h symptoms and felt as healthy as he did on any or rmal day.

“If I was home, I would be out doing everything I rmally do,” he said in an interview conducted via Facebook calls when couple were still hospitalized in Nagoya, Japan. Rose Yerex tested negative when she got to hospital.

For Greg Yerex, it was couple's mental health that faced biggest threat as y y spent days in quarantine, isolated from friends and family and deprived of any direct human contact.

“It’s like being a prisoner," he said. “You pace, you worry, you fret, you imagine all sorts of things. You have control.”

Greg Yerez said that he and hsi wife, who have since been released from hospital, plan to go to counseling to work through mental stress y experienced.

Fellow cruise passenger Rebecca Frasure kws how y feel.

“I don’t get to speak with anyone," she said in a Facebook call while still hospitalized in Nagoya. "I have a little window in my room, but cant leave. only contact I have is through Facebook messenger. I would never wish this on anyone.”

Frasure said one of things she found most frustrating was waiting for her test results to come back. Patients who have been diagsed with virus must have two consecutive negative tests before y can be released.

Frasure is w out of hospital, but is worried about being stigmatized by her home community.

“Are y going to be afraid?" she wondered. ”Are y going to criticize me for being home, thinking I brought virus back with me?"

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