Posted on 06/16/2020 5:52:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Dallas woman is detailing her battle with not one but two rounds of coronavirus.
Over the weekend, Meredith McKee posted a tearful photo -- that's now been seen by more than 100,000 people -- from her hospital bed at Texas Health Presbyterian in Dallas.
McKee is sick with the coronavirus again, and she told NBC 5 she wouldn't wish it on her worst enemy.
"To be alone in the hospital and not have anyone, you know," McKee said tearfully.
McKee tested positive for COVID-19 in February. She was diagnosed after feeling "clear and obvious" symptoms.
"I had a dry cough like you would not believe. It would not stop,” McKee said.
She fought the virus from home and beat it. She even donated plasma twice after testing positive for antibodies, thinking she was in the clear.
"I felt great doing finally something good coming out of the hell that I’ve been through because I'm going to help up to eight people with this plasma,” McKee said.
But this past Friday, McKee went to the hospital with high blood pressure and a headache.
She never imagined -- four months later -- she'd test positive for COVID-19 again.
"I was floored when it was positive," McKee said of her diagnosis.
An epidemiologist at UT Southwestern -- not connected to McKee's case -- said catching the coronavirus twice is possible, but it appears to be uncommon.
"We don't really know how serious the illness is the second time compared to the first time," said Dr. Robert Haley with UT Southwestern.
A second positive test after a negative result may mean the virus is simply taking its time leaving the body, doctors said, and is no longer able to infect others.
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How old is this woman? Is she elderly?
You’d think the “journalist” would ask.
It will flatten the curve of the baby-boomer retirement bubble “Social Security Crisis”.
Funny how almost no economists are talking about that anymore.
Fauci? Why are citing him? Has he been right about anything? Does he have any credibility? It boggles the mind to read your post.
How could she test positive for Covid 19 in February??! I had the same symptoms as her in March, but they weren’t even doing testing in Arizona until the end of the month.
Maybe she didn’t really have it the first time. I don’t trust the tests they’ve used. Some people tested negative a couple of times, before testing positive.
Well, that's it!
SHUT DOWN the WORLD the virus is gonna KILL us ALL! /s
There are many reports that antibodies don’t seem to confer immunity to this virus. This is a very scary virus.
First symptom in Feb was a bad cough; that’s on the WuhanVirus symptoms list
Headache and high blood pressure in June?
Only one of those (headache) might be a WuhanVirus symptom.
So, she’s in hospital for something else, and she happened to get the virus without the usual symptoms?
I would think it was a false positive, but she says she also had antibodies, which means she tested positive for the virus and then later for antibodies.
But how do we know if any of her story is true.
....... Awe .... C'mon .... The whole entire Universe knows that it is an absolute IMPOSSIBLITY to have a false positive with COVID-19. Just ask any Democrat or Never Trumper.
What was it that the adults told me when I was a child......?
Only believe half of what you see and nothing of what you hear.
I believe that remark was meant to be applied to information conveyed by the media.
I don't think it's so much a lack of understanding as a lack of being able to predict what happens when you mix two different types of virii.
It’s these one in a million cases like this that tell you everything!
The vast majority of old people survive the virus. They tested everyone at the assisted lving in April, and there were several in their 80's with no symptoms. Others had mild cases.
It’s a rather nasty cold. The chicken little flue.
Right. Of course she did.
There’s both, a known cause and known cure. The cause is Trump-enomics, i.e. prosperity for all races and the country. The cure is Looting and burning down your own community. Just watch the news and you’ll see.
I'm not saying to outright reject it, but I am virtually saying that ... reject it until and unless there are more of these and it becomes a pattern.
This would be the first. On balance, I'd say there's either a lie or an explanation or it's an outlier and most likely one with explanation.
As expected for some people.
No surprise here. It would be criminal for manipulators to use this and other cases like it - i.e. a distinct minority of cases - to justify mass vaccinations.
Yeah, not very good reporting. Should have been half a dozen other questions asked and answered by medical professionals in that story. Two i’d like answered for sure are: How much virus is she still carrying? Was the high blood pressure and headache COVID-19 related or caused by something else?
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