[fireman15]

You mean now we are going to start having to read articles with actual useful information? Thanks it was a great article!

[RummyChick]

“For both of us, the major early symptom was a clear, runny nose, so unusually runny that it motivated my husband to call the Centers for Disease Control and ask about getting a COVID-19 test very early on”

I had this after a bunch of asians coughed all over me. Never had such a runny nose in my life. Cant remember the other symptoms. I think throat and sneezing. No fever. I knocked it out overnight but then a little while later..after an asian woman was coughing on me...I got some more symptoms that took longer to knock out

I would thrilled it I had it and was able to easily cure it..but it was probably just some kind of cold virus

I am going to do an antibody test when they get them perfected

[A_perfect_lady]

Thank you for posting this; this was a good, informative read.

[Nifster]

All the things one would do if they have pneumonia, a bad flu, or severe bronchitis

[jimjohn]

Thank you.

[Qiviut]

Great article - thanks.

[rainee]

Good info
Interesting that he was prescribed Prednisone
That’s what my husband took after his bout with a horrible flu back in January
I would like for him to get tested, see if maybe he had Covid

[OpusatFR]

I am a lifelong asthmatic.

When I am suffering through an asthma attack, the last thing I want to do is lay on my stomach. I absolutely feel like I am suffocating if I do.

COVID19 patients breath well and have good O2 saturation in that position.

So this is not a mechanism in the lungs like pneumonia, or viral pneumonia.

Very strange indeed.

[PGR88]

excellent advice for self-treatment

[Leaning Right]

Good post. Thanks.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Good article and lots of great tips. Thanks. Couple of things that are surprising:

1. She didn't mention various OTC supplements you can take for immune health and antiviral activity - Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Zinc and others. Also, sleep is extremely important to good immune health (although they were probably getting sufficient sleep while sick with the virus because it knocks you out).

2. She didn't mention a RECORDING pulse-oximeter. I use one to monitor my blood oxygen levels while I am sleeping. I like the "O2Ring" by Wellue. It's pricey, but it vibrates when you go below a preset O2 level and will wake you up. It provides a good summary report and you can export the data as a csv file. This is an excellent way to keep track of longer-term changes in your blood oxygen levels. You can purchase it on Amazon. It's a Chinese product (naturally) but is well engineered, comfortable to wear, and so-far very reliable. The mobile app is rock-solid, too, and has never failed to download the data from the ring.

Here are a couple of sections from the O2Ring report...

[Thank You Rush]

Thank you....

[MHGinTN]

Beautiful story. Thanx for posting it.

[SgtHooper]

Outstanding read! Incredible.

[DeweyCA]

Thank you. VERY practical treatment advice...and scary.

[faucetman]

PRESIDENT TRUMP (or your staff) I KNOW you lurk here!

GET THIS STORY TO THE PRESIDENT!!!!

Better advice than from Fow-Chi or Birkx.

[WildHighlander57]

They were taking the “Trump pills” for it !!

From the article:

“...My disease never progressed beyond a worsening cough and shortness of breath. By that point my husband had become more serious and was on hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. That’s when I started these medications as well. Whether because I had a milder case or an earlier drug intervention, my case never got worse than that.
...
medications... In our case that included hydroxycholroquine, azithromycin (to prevent bacterial pneumonia from developing), zinc supplements,

[faucetman]

GREAT photo! While I generally do not appreciate “black and white” photos, I mostly see it as an artsy fartsy exercise. In THIS case its PERFECT!

I realize this is NOT a photo or certainly not a RECENT photo of the author, probably had nothing to do with choosing the photo, but it is after all a “magazine”.

Just commenting on the “art”.

The GREAT article speaks for itself. (Well, I guess the photo does as well). NEVERMIND! (Emily Litella - Gilda Radner)

[thecodont]

Great article. Thank you.

[diatomite]

Even though she was taking zinc, I wonder if her loss of taste and smell was due to a zinc deficiency.