I got Covid-19 two months ago. I'm still discovering new areas of damage -- Richard Quest

By Richard Quest, Business editor-at-large, CNN

Updated 1747 GMT (0147 HKT) July 7, 2020

(CNN)The cough has come back, without warning and seemingly for no reason; so has the fatigue. True, neither are as debilitating as when I had the actual virus, but they are back.

Like many others, I am now coming to realize that I am living and suffering from the long tail of Covid-19.

I got infected back in mid-April. The onset of symptoms came quickly. I suddenly noticed I was feeling very tired and I had a new cough. I got tested and the morning after I received a phone call from the medical center, I had tested positive for coronavirus.

The virus is like a tornado. When it lands, it swirls through the body, causing chaos, confusion, coughs, wreaking damage to each organ it touches. Some won't survive its visit. For those that do, when it has gone, one surveys the damage to the human landscape and realizes it's much greater than first thought. My symptoms were on the milder side: I never had breathing difficulties, or loss of sense or smell. I was wiped-out tired and I always had "the cough," which has now returned.

The Covid cough is not like your usual cough-it-up deep cough (what doctors politely call a "productive cough." ) It is very distinctive. It is a dry, raspy, wheezy, cough. In my case, lots of short, expelling gasps of air, followed by a long, deep, chest-wrenching expiration cough, that has standers by wondering if I am going to keel over.

I have tested negative for the virus and positive for the antibodies, and my doctor says it won't return. But there are days when I feel that it has.
I am also discovering new areas of damage: I have now become incredibly clumsy. I was never the most lissome person, no one ever called me graceful, but my clumsiness is off the chart. If I reach for a glass, or take something out of a cupboard, I will knock it, or drop it on the floor. I have tripped over the curb and gone flying. I fall over furniture. It is as if that part of my brain, which subconsciously adjusts hand and movement to obstacles it sees, isn't working.

At times there's a sense of mild confusion. The micro delay in a thought, the hesitation with a word. Nobody would notice but me.

My digestive system is peculiar, to say the least.

It doesn't matter whether I call them symptoms, traits, or wreckage -- my body doesn't feel quite right.

The doctors try to reassure me, saying, this will wear off, but they can't tell me when. Last week was bad. The cough has been with me for days, I have been tired and needed to take naps. I tripped over the camera tripod then fell over a chair! I am concerned but not panicked, yet. This week already feels much better.

For those who have not had Covid, or witnessed the mess it leaves behind, again, I urge you, do whatever you can to avoid this tornado.

It will roar through the body -- kill some on the way -- injure all in its path -- and then when you think "well, thank God that's gone," look around, the damage is strewn everywhere and will be with you long after the crisis has passed.

Covid is a tornado with a very long tail.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/07/health/richard-quest-covid-wellness-intl/index.html


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Video from April 20th.


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CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! FTC AGAIN. Meanwhile, I Hate to Say It But Its True, i Got Symptoms Of Coro and Right Now I'm Ok. My Self Medication Worked Perfectly, i Thank God I'm Healthy Again. IT'S NOT A DEATH SENTENCE

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The Covid cough is not like your usual cough-it-up deep cough (what doctors politely call a "productive cough." )

Lol at the bold part, productive cough indeed.

Quest means business, i hope he recovers quickly.

COVID-19 means business.

Goodluck on your quest!

No be small covid19 means business.

I've always love listening to his program.....

“There is nothing you can ever do or attain that will get you closer to salvation than it is at this moment. This may be hard to grasp for a mind accustomed to thinking that everything worthwhile is in the future. Nor can anything that you ever did or that was done to you in the past prevent you from saying yes to what is and taking your attention deeply into the Now. You cannot do this in the future. You do it now or not at all.”

Be strong Sir.
Get well soon.

Naso tell us how much they pay you first.

Hmmm fake pastors everywhere

Really?

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New areas of damage bawo!!
Good luck on your quest sire! We hope what ever you discover will help mankind

Right from time Richard Quest always sounds like he needs to clear his throat

Studies have shown that those with mild symptoms can also suffer a stroke. People as young as 30.

This is clearly looking like a manufactured disease

This is strange

Only God knows the aftermath of the disease. It's too early for experts to make any conclusions.

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I read the whole thing in his voice...

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Quest means business,quick recovery sir