If you think you’re invincible just because you’re young and healthy, don’t be so sure. A 22-year-old university student shared her experience about what it’s like to come down with the coronavirus.
“You do not want to catch this,” Amy Shircel puts it plain and simple before going into detail about what she felt like and what her symptoms were day by day. Amy’s Twitter thread reached a lot of people, with more than 292.9k likes and 114k retweets at the time of writing.
She warned young people in their 20s to be careful. Especially considering that she was very ill despite living a healthy lifestyle, having no underlying conditions, and exercising every day.
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Amy, a student from Wisconsin, explained just how badly the coronavirus affected her
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Amy, who lives and studies in Wisconsin, developed a cough, then a fever, lost her energy, started vomiting, was out of breath from moving just a tiny bit. She had to go to the emergency room twice!
Her very first symptoms started showing on March 15, some time after she came back from her trip to Europe. Four days later, her test results came back: she had Covid-19. ABC News confirmed that Amy had the coronavirus after she provided them with her test results.
Amy loves to travel
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Amy said she found it frustrating that some of her friends and followers aren’t staying at home which helps slow down the spread of the virus. “The importance of quarantine and actually being quarantined and not just having your boyfriend over. That’s not what it means to be in quarantine. It’s important to not be selfish and be greedy. Just be patient,” she added.
Though Amy’s feeling weaker than usual, she now has her energy and appetite back. “Honestly, for a while, I forgot what it’s like to feel healthy, so it’s been really nice.”
When asked about having underlying conditions…
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…Amy said that she doesn’t have any and leads a healthy lifestyle
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that the people most at-risk from the coronavirus are over the age of 65 and those who have underlying medical conditions. But that doesn’t mean that anyone who’s young and healthy can’t get sick. Some might get lucky and won’t show any symptoms while others can end up just like Amy—exhausted and fearing for their lives.
There are now more than a million cases of people infected with Covid-19 around the world. The US now reports over 245k cases and more than 6k people have died from the disease.
Some Twitter users shared how Covid-19 has affected their friends and family
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Lots of people hoped that Amy would feel better soon
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