Oh my heart! That is so heartbreaking! I am so sorry that happened to your sister!
I got it in February of 2020. This woman who had just travelled from New York coughed in my face and another lady’s face in a hallway, so she and I both got quite the viral load and got very sick. My fever spiked to 102.9 and I truly felt like I was drowning my lungs were so full of fluid. It was scary. I have had a few really rotten diseases (including multi-drug resistant malaria), but it was the only time I thought I might die. I took nothing but Tylenol for the fever and suddenly got way, way better after day 3.
I so wish your sister had got better, too. That is just so tragic, and my heart goes put to you.
thank you for relating your experience and your kind words.
One of my good friends caught Covid in December 2020. So did his wife and several other members of his family. I talked to him by phone in early January before his O2 level collapsed and he had to be hospitalized.
I think his O2 went below 80 at one point. From what I gather he probably was experiencing a cytokine storm. He had developed double pneumonia on top of Covid. A final insult was acute kidney injury meaning that his kidneys gave up. When they tried to institute dialysis his blood pressure fluctuated wildly and they couldn’t do it. He died about three days after that. He had been hospitalized just shy of one month if memory serves.
Three of his aunts died from it as well. His wife recovered at home.