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The lingering symptoms of a mild Covid19 case.

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I know I’m no one to judge you, to tell you what to do and I surely don’t pretend to do so. But I chose to speak about what the experience of having Covid-19 has been to me, in case anyone wants to know how a medium case develops. All we see in the news are the stories about people who in a somehow miraculous way have no symptoms at all, or those who in a truly miraculous way (To a believer as myself) recover after spending a month or month in the UCI, in coma, with a ventilator. I’m here to talk about the spectrum of people who are between those two extremes, but also to speak about the aftermath. I’m also here as a chronic illness, immunosuppressed patient, who has asthma and arthritis and how those processes have been affected too. I can’t tell you how I got infected, because I had been home in self-isolation for 25 days when my symptoms started. On April 8 th I had diarrhea and migraine, which I blamed on anything else but the virus, and the next day I had what I felt like...