Experts estimate tens of millions of Americans contracted coronavirus but are not included in official tallies because of testing errors, misdiagnoses, a sluggish public health response, and ignorance about the disease during its early days in the U.S.
, CDC Director Robert Redfield said in a news conference on June 25.
When the 45-year-old woke up gasping for air, Talkington thought she might die. She wondered how long it would take people to notice since she lived alone. Sometimes, she hallucinated that her dog lying in bed next to her was dying and that she, a vet, could do nothing to keep him alive.“I travel worldwide quite a bit with my work. I’ve had Zika, Dengue, Malaria,” she said. “This felt very different.
But Talkington doesn’t tell most people what she’s been through. Some relatives and friends have told her they are skeptical she really was so sick for so long. When she runs into people she knows, they often comment on the 20 pounds she lost while ill. “We were put in a double bind — told by the experts that we should not seek help until it was too late, and then due to poor testing or testing too far out, we felt additionally invalidated in our illness ,” wrote Orrick. “This left many of us in a powerless place.”Coronavirus survivor groups have proliferated on social media sites. For some, the posts spark new anxiety about what they might face next.
Accurate and available testing is critical, not only to better treatment for patients like Brumley, but also for tracking, tracing and stopping coronavirus’ spread. If people with COVID-19 can be identified and isolated before they infect someone new, communities can avoid widespread shutdowns, hospitalizations and deaths. Often the virus is spread before people develop symptoms as bad as Brumley’s or without showing any signs of illness at all.
“The results suggest that as many as 1 in 50 people living and working in the Mission could be actively infected with the virus, and that many are likely to be asymptomatic,” the group wrote in its initial report. The challenges that make it easy for Latino workers and families to contract the illness, as well as those that make it difficult for Mission residents to access testing, are the same structural problems that lead to poor health outcomes for many other diseases: low-income, no health insurance or paid leave, high-exposure jobs, crowded homes, and complicated rules about safety-net services for people without permanent residency or citizenship.
Three days later, Hall started to feel back pain. Then, he became fatigued, and his breathing was labored.He said his doctor told him not to go to the hospital, which would send him home. She said to call 911 if he couldn’t breathe. By that night, he couldn’t. And he started vomiting. Paramedics loaded him into the ambulance so quickly that Hall’s wife didn’t have a chance to ask which hospital they would take him to.
The day after he returned home, one of his daughters turned 12 years old. He was supposed to isolate himself in a room away from family until he had a second negative test. He broke the rule briefly to join the celebrations from six feet away, wearing gloves and a mask. When her fever shot up to 103 and she developed a bad dry cough, Hennings feared pneumonia. In a tele-appointment with a doctor, she had trouble describing her symptoms because talking triggered coughing fits that made her nauseated. After a few days of medication, Hennings still did not feel better, so she drove to the ER.
Understanding how many more people died from COVID-19 may not change public health policies, said Nicholas Jewell, a professor of biostatistics at The University of California - Berkeley. But it matters deeply to communities that have experienced loss.
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