Ask HN: What would you do if you got Covid? i dont have covid, but just curious if anything changed recently? most of what i have is follow the advice of doctors and cdc. i know there are boosters and pills, but not sure if theres anything new outside of that? im pretty sure people who are up there still got priority service too |
A week after my father's untimely demise, my mother suffered a massive stroke and went into a coma. We brought her home after the doctors treating her at the hospital had declared her brain dead. During the hospitalization, she was diagnosed with Covid-19, which we were told caused her the ischemic stroke.
Of note, we live in a village where we have no access to healthcare at all.
As her caregivers at home, my wife (42) and I (48) were exposed to my mother while she was still comatose and recovering from the infectious disease, and subsequently both my wife and I tested positive for the coronavirus. With no one else around to help us except my daughter who we had kept in isolation, we continued caring for my mother, giving her nothing but thin liquids via a feeding tube.
The symptoms my wife and I experienced through our recovery lasting a week to 10 days included a low-grade fever, loss of taste and smell. It took us about a month to regain the latter. Even my mother, who is 68 and otherwise healthy, regained consciousness and her ability to communicate over a month or so and she began taking in food orally after I had no choice but to go ahead and remove her feeding tube myself. She is still paralyzed and bedridden, though.
"What to Do If You Are Sick"
- Keep track of your symptoms.
- Stay home except to get medical care
- Separate yourself from other people
(Additional detail at link.)
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/st...
"You Tested Positive for Covid. Now What?"
If you’re in public or around people when you get the bad news, put on a mask immediately. Then isolate yourself as quickly as possible, even if you don’t have symptoms. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends isolating for five days if you are asymptomatic or if you do not have a fever and your other symptoms are improving, followed by five days of wearing a mask when you are around people. The C.D.C. previously recommended isolating for 10 days. If you have a fever, the agency advises you to stay home until the fever resolves.
https://www.nytimes.com/article/testing-positive-covid-omicr...
I wouldn't advise anyone to be flippant about it, but the odds are you'll be fine, so don't panic.
If I could do anything differently, it would be to have a better plan in place for isolation. I was visiting my home country at the time and didn't have a place of my own to isolate. That was careless on my part.
I'm more worried about my four year old, who can't get vaccinated. If he got it I would hope it is minor, but if not, I'd go straight to the local hospital.
Worked in Feb 2020 and the first week of this month, when it ripped through our family. Teen daughter came down with mild symptoms first in both cases.