'Quarantine like your life depends on it': Infected woman's desperate plea
A young woman has made a desperate plea for people to be careful after she caught coronavirus.
Amy Shircel, 22, from the US state of Wisconsin, had just returned home from Europe and was tested for coronavirus after experiencing a mild fever, coughs, chills, headache and runny nose.
Ms Shircel wrote on Twitter she "wouldn't wish it on her worst enemy".
"You do not want to catch this," she warned others.
During the following days, she said she “couldn’t keep anything down”.
Ms Shircel tweeted that she was vomiting constantly and couldn't eat. She then developed shortness of breath and was weak.
"I had never been this ill in my entire life. I was genuinely afraid I would die, because that is what it felt like," she said.
In the days that followed, Ms Shircel said she violently shivered in bed all day or would wake up in a puddle of her own sweat. She got her appetite back after 12 days, she recalled.
"A coronavirus diagnosis is dehumanising and lonely, and I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy,” she said.
“You aren't invincible just because you're in your 20s. Take it from me, and quarantine like your life depends on it (it might)."
The 22-year-old is hoping anyone hearing about her experience will socially isolate and stay at home.
As the US grapples with an explosion of coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump has touted a controversial malaria drug as medication which could turn around the country’s fortunes in fighting the deadly virus.
The FDA, also known as the Food and Drug Administration, has controversially approved Chloroquine Phosphate or Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate to be distributed from the country’s national stockpile.
FDA chief scientist Denise Hinton wrote in her approval, it’s “reasonable to believe” the drug might be effective in fighting coronavirus.
However, the drugs can cause heart rhythm problems, severely low blood pressure and muscle or nerve damage.
Doctors have raised concerns about pushing the drug into hospitals.
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