Connor Reed, a British man who works at a school in Wuhan, explains how it felt to have the Covid-19 coronavirus, discusses what life is like after 40 days in lockdown and how he thinks people in the UK would cope in similar circumstances.
Connor Reed was working in Wuhan when he contracted the coronavirus in late 2019, suffering common cold-like symptoms, then flu, and ultimately pneumonia which hospitalized him and left him struggling to breathe.
Now fully recovered after a month of sickness, and still living in Wuhan, where the epidemic first broke out, Welshman Reed, 25, has adapted to the new normal in the city under lockdown since late January.
“I first had a cold - just an everyday cold, a thing that everybody gets. I then got better before I got worse. So from the cold I progressed into the flu ... definitely the worst flu that I’ve had.”
“From the flu. I got better again, and that’s when I had pneumonia. The pneumonia stage was when I went to the hospital.”
At the time of his admission, authorities in China were not fully aware of the scale of the outbreak of the new virus. Reed got confirmation at the end of December that he had COVID-19.
“When I had the flu symptoms, that felt like I’d been hit by a truck. And it was quite debilitating ... however, it wasn’t life threatening.”
“When I had pneumonia, that’s the point where it was getting quite serious. It felt like I could only use half my lung capacity, and every breath I took wasn’t enough and I just couldn’t get enough air.”
Reed said it sounded like he was breathing through “a paper bag” and as if there was stuff in his lungs that wouldn’t shift.
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