Doctors: Most COVID-19 patients recover at home
The day before Benjamin Barksdale Jr. tested positive for COVID-19, he had a fever of 101 degrees, body aches and aching joints.
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While people range wildly with their symptoms of COVID-19, from displaying none at all to requiring ventilators and dying, extreme cases are not the norm.
Above video: Some patients recover at home with patient-monitoring program
In fact, Harvard health experts have noted that most people are able to recover from the disease at home.
Yale doctors have also said most cases are mild, even noting practices where many 바카라 게임 웹사이트 even most 바카라 게임 웹사이트 patients did not require hospitalization.
For Barksdale, his headache made him feel like his head was going to crack open, and it hurt just to bend his knees.
Barksdale, Orlando's fire chief, isolated himself in his high-rise apartment overlooking Lake Eola, even as his wife remained with him. He wore a mask indoors and wiped down everything, and she didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t seem to catch the virus.
He stopped working for four days, got sleep and fluids, sought out soups and fruit and stayed away from caffeine. He took Tylenol for the fever, and he felt good about the seventh or eighth day. About the ninth or 10th day, he was ready to go and went back to work on June 29.
Most patients don't require hospitalization
Because it바카라 게임 웹사이트s so unclear how people might react and other factors, physicians urge people to adhere to public health measures that include wearing a mask, physical distancing and proper hand hygiene.
But for those who get COVID-19, the disease is manageable.
바카라 게임 웹사이트If, God forbid, you get this virus, more than likely, if you바카라 게임 웹사이트re younger than 60 or 65 and you don바카라 게임 웹사이트t have underlying medical problems, you바카라 게임 웹사이트re going to do OK,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Dr. Joshua Septimus, with Houston Methodist. 바카라 게임 웹사이트And you바카라 게임 웹사이트re going to recover in a relatively quick fashion.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Septimus has had about 25 patients with the disease, and only one required hospitalization, which involved a few nights there without the need for intensive care before going home and recovering.
All of his younger patients resumed normal activities within a 10-day period. People in their 70s made full recoveries, too, but underlying medical problems, including obesity, can complicate matters and prolong recoveries.
Doctors stress prevention
Because the disease is deadlier than the flu and there바카라 게임 웹사이트s no proven medication to treat COVID-19, Septimus urges people to follow mask and distancing guidelines. He said his patients frequently got the disease from people who don바카라 게임 웹사이트t fully adhere to wearing masks frequently spread the virus at work.
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That means it바카라 게임 웹사이트s important to continue taking precautions and doing so seriously, Septimus said.
Even though most recovering patients are staying home, there's an unpredictability with how one's body might respond, he said.
He and other doctors stress there바카라 게임 웹사이트s no typical coronavirus case, and there바카라 게임 웹사이트s such a spectrum in how people's bodies respond to the disease.
바카라 게임 웹사이트A typical COVID case 바카라 게임 웹사이트 doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t seem to exist,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Dr. Hallie Prescott, of the University of Michigan Health System.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I think there is this perception out there that, 바카라 게임 웹사이트I바카라 게임 웹사이트m either going to get COVID and I바카라 게임 웹사이트m going to fully recover바카라 게임 웹사이트 or 바카라 게임 웹사이트I바카라 게임 웹사이트m going to get COVID and I바카라 게임 웹사이트m going to die from it,바카라 게임 웹사이트바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Dr. Emily Brigham of Johns Hopkins University.
Brigham said there's so much in between that many people don't account for and don't think about.
While many people may have mild symptoms that don바카라 게임 웹사이트t impact their daily lives, such as loss of taste or smell, some may have severe symptoms that escalate rapidly, Brigham said.
Brigham advises patients who do get the disease to stay in close contact with their doctor.
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Reducing COVID-19 severity
Some doctors suggest that wearing a mask could further reduce the impact of the disease, making cases milder.
Prescott likens it to wearing a seatbelt: Although it doesn바카라 게임 웹사이트t prevent 100% of vehicular deaths, it can make an injury less severe.
바카라 게임 웹사이트We cannot overwhelm our hospital systems again and again and again and again,바카라 게임 웹사이트 Brigham said. 바카라 게임 웹사이트We cannot be having providers get sick, which reduces our capacity as well. We cannot be having more patients than our hospitals can take care of in any given time because that is when바카라 게임 웹사이트 death rates will sharply increase, she said.
바카라 게임 웹사이트It바카라 게임 웹사이트s so hard to see that happening in some areas of the country and the world right now when there are some interventions that we know work바카라 게임 웹사이트 when broadly supported and implemented, Brigham said, 바카라 게임 웹사이트which includes mask wearing, social distancing and just being cautious.바카라 게임 웹사이트
Frontline workers mitigating spread
Orlando바카라 게임 웹사이트s fire department eventually had 108 firefighters test positive for the disease, and an additional 125 had to be in quarantine, affecting nearly half of Barksdale바카라 게임 웹사이트s force of 536 firefighters.
While the department had a staffing plan in place, Barksdale notes there wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트t a lapse in service.
His advice for other agencies? 바카라 게임 웹사이트Don바카라 게임 웹사이트t assume that it won바카라 게임 웹사이트t happen to you.바카라 게임 웹사이트
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