A friend of mine who is a physician in London, forwarded the following report to me. He received it personally from a doctor who works in a big London hospital in the section treating coronavirus patients. I withhold the doctors name and the name of her hospital. She has now more urgent things to do than to answer to email requests. However, I guarantee personally for the authenticity of the text. Here is, what she writes:
Just want to say – I’ve seen quite a few people with Covid 19 since Sunday. The vast majority are fine.
They seem to have one week of fever, a few days of dry cough and then sometimes breathlessness on day 8 or 9.
Most people are fine to stay at home and recover in about 10 days. If it is going to be bad, it is around day 9 or 10 and the breathlessness gets rapidly worse at that point.
We have had five patients who needed ITU [Intensive Therapy Unit] but they all have heart or lung disease, and are quite elderly. Thankfully children seem to be invincible.
I’ve never …More