One 25-year-old man felt like he was going to die while he had coronavirus. A 73-year-old woman didn’t even have a fever with her COVID-19 symptoms.
Just 25 years old, Reed told Sky News he lost his voice from an incessant cough. He was unable to make any sounds, he added.
“It was a case of going to bed, waking up and not being able to breathe,” Reed said. “It scared me because breathing is a necessity of life. If you have the flu, you feel like you’re going to die but you’re really not. But when your lungs get affected, that’s when it really scared me.
He said his first major symptom was pressure on his chest.
“What got me kind of nervous was when my chest started to feel like, you know, an elephant was standing on (it) basically tough to get your breath,” he told ABC News.
Kane was treated with remdesivir, an antiviral therapy that was used in Ebola treatment, according to NBC News. The treatment was used on the seventh day he was in the hospital, and positive results were shown the following day.
“We are 100,000 percent convinced that the remdesivir turned things around for him,” his wife, Susan Kane, told NBC News.
California projects 56 percent of the population will be infected with coronavirus over 8-week period
With more than 200,000 coronavirus cases worldwide and thousands of deaths, a striking pattern is appearing in the hardest-hit countries: More men are dying than women.
Nowhere is this trend more pronounced than in Italy. Men make up nearly 60% of people with confirmed cases of the virus and more than 70% of those who have died from covid-19, according to the country's main public health research agency.
On the other end of the spectrum is South Korea, where about 61% of confirmed infections have been in women. Though far fewer patients have died, the majority of fatalities - 54% -- were again in men.
Just 25 years old, Reed told Sky News he lost his voice from an incessant cough. He was unable to make any sounds, he added.
“It was a case of going to bed, waking up and not being able to breathe,” Reed said. “It scared me because breathing is a necessity of life. If you have the flu, you feel like you’re going to die but you’re really not. But when your lungs get affected, that’s when it really scared me.
He said his first major symptom was pressure on his chest.
“What got me kind of nervous was when my chest started to feel like, you know, an elephant was standing on (it) basically tough to get your breath,” he told ABC News.
Kane was treated with remdesivir, an antiviral therapy that was used in Ebola treatment, according to NBC News. The treatment was used on the seventh day he was in the hospital, and positive results were shown the following day.
“We are 100,000 percent convinced that the remdesivir turned things around for him,” his wife, Susan Kane, told NBC News.
California projects 56 percent of the population will be infected with coronavirus over 8-week period
With more than 200,000 coronavirus cases worldwide and thousands of deaths, a striking pattern is appearing in the hardest-hit countries: More men are dying than women.
Nowhere is this trend more pronounced than in Italy. Men make up nearly 60% of people with confirmed cases of the virus and more than 70% of those who have died from covid-19, according to the country's main public health research agency.
On the other end of the spectrum is South Korea, where about 61% of confirmed infections have been in women. Though far fewer patients have died, the majority of fatalities - 54% -- were again in men.
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