'It's like lousy lingering flu': Boris Akunin told how he had been ill with COVID-19
«Странное занятие — рассказывать, как болеешь гриппом, но так много народу боится этого чертова коронавируса, а отболевших им пока так немного, что я решил поделиться этим личным опытом», — Boris Akunin writes on his blog Obozrevatel.
I got sick in the middle of the day on Friday the 13th. (Who read my postwritten that morning will appreciate the humor).
Actually, we both got sick, me and my wife. But she had a very mild form: a day of low temperature, then two days of a headache, and her sense of smell was completely gone (there is such a symptom).
У меня форма средней тяжести. Это как паршивый затяжной грипп с высокой температурой. Разница в том, что улучшения не происходит. Температура доползает до 39, сбиваешь ее парацетамолом. Завтра опять. И опять. И опять. Этим «днем сурка» я наслаждался дней десять. Лежал дома, слушал аудиокниги. Знал, что опасаться нужно только проблем с дыханием — в этом случае приедет «скорая». Проблем с дыханием не возникало, поэтому настроение было злобное, но спокойное.
I was not lucky that I was from the earliest, and in the early days of the disease there was no treatment. On the eleventh day, a doctor with successful experience finally appeared and prescribed me a course of antibiotics. Well, it gradually got better. Here, in fact, the whole story.
Other methods have appeared. They are still experimental, but they help a lot. In general, the later you become ill, the easier it will be to cure you - this is the main point of observing quarantine. But of course, do not take any antibiotics themselves and especially hydroxychloroquine without a doctor’s prescription.
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Больше всего меня беспокоит не вирус, а психоз вокруг него. Пожалуйста, не запугивайте себя. Это очень опасно. Не постите всякие ужасы, которыми переполнен интернет. Все эти «фотографии легких, пораженных коронавирусом», «гробы в Бергамо», описания ужасов одинокой смерти и т.п. Подумайте о том, сколько вокруг впечатлительных, мнительных, нервных людей. Психоз и самовнушение – вот сейчас главная опасность.
Be careful, act responsibly, but don't panic. And help those who are in self-isolation. Especially old and sick. In England, a campaign is underway to recruit volunteers online: who can go grocery shopping, take a walk with a dog, etc. Hundreds of thousands of people are recorded. There is a special demand for those who have already been ill. When I do a test confirming immunity (the test should appear next week), I will also be sure to register. I will walk with dogs, is it bad.
In general, breathe evenly. Time works for us. Society and medicine are rapidly mobilizing. Let us consider this epidemic as an incentive for the development of mutual assistance and organization. We are all on the same front line, and this rarely happens.
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