Nathan Jeffay is the Times of Israel’s health and science correspondent
“We see patients we send to the cardiologist,” he says. We see patients we sent to the neurologist. Many are similar to sleep disorders, temperament disorders and reminiscence”
Much is still unknown about the sequels, such as why they have an effect on some and not others, and what motivates them precisely. “If the reaction is some kind of aberrant or overactive immune response, we don’t know. Berkman said.
Tova believes that he revels in coronavirus, that is, its long COVID element, situations that require the unusual assumption that other young and healthy people do not want to worry about the virus because they can be sure of an immediate recovery from an undeniable mild disease.
“People just don’t see what this virus can do,” he said. “I’m worried about everyone. I was in the hospital on [vacation] and saw photographs on the news of other people who came with each other, prayed in combination. “and even go to weddings in contravention of the regulations enacted to prevent the virus.
“To me, in this hospital room, they seemed crazy. They just didn’t perceive the disease. “
His illness began around Rosh Hashana. ” I think my mom got me in the way,” she says. “I was with her on Shabbat and five days later the symptoms began: fever, cough and difficulty savoring. I in solitary confinement in my room, where I stayed while my circle of relatives brought me food.
“Three days after I got infected, I was in the shower and I had trouble breathing. After 10 minutes, I called the doctor in the family circle and a few minutes later I got hospitalized. My mother was already at Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, so I asked to go.
He temporarily felt that the profile of the patients was different from the one he had imagined, with others who, like him, were young and healthy until the virus was hit. “When I was in extensive care, there were other people without an original illness. “”, he said. ” No one knows why it affects other people the most. I’m a little overweight, but we don’t know. There’s so much uncertainty. “
With severely swollen lungs, he gained medicine and plasma and connected to machines to help him breathe, but not a fan. “We were hospitalized in adjacent rooms, and one of my first days, they took me out of my machines and said to go see your mother.
“I saw her and went back to my room. The next day, they came and told me I had passed away.
Even with its symptoms and bereavement, one of the most difficult facets of hospitalization is the loneliness of life in a strictly quarantined room of people, where staff are expected to enter only for limited periods.
“Only part of the difficulty is medical, the remaining 50% is loneliness,” he said. “You just look at the walls and you can’t see your family. I don’t really know what it looks like.
“When the staff arrived and exchanged a few words with me, it was bigger than all the medication. And it’s even with videos to watch and WhatsApp calls to family members. I can’t describe how I felt when I nevertheless left and saw the sun. “
He added: “The vital thing I have to say is that I can’t describe in words what it means to spend 3 weeks without a genuine connection to the outdoor world. It hurts as much as the disease. People think I probably would. “it doesn’t happen to them, but I can tell you that it is, and when other people go into that isolation room in the hospital, adults cry like babies. “
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