After months of doctors treating patients with coronavirus or COVID-19, they have observed and noticed that they have patterns in their symptoms.
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COVID-19 patients "feel better" at first before it all gets worse
Doctors have begun to get a better hold and understanding of the effects od the novel coronavirus after the number of cases in the United States continues to skyrocket as they go beyond 30,000 as of Sunday.
They have also advised the public that people that are diagnosed with COVID-19 will experience breaks in their symptoms before their condition completely deteriorates. The symptoms show only mild effects in the early stages as patients only complain of having a little cough, low-grade fevers and headaches.
In New Orleans, after he treated about 15 to 20 coronavirus patients, pulmonary medicine and critical care physician at Tulane Medical Center, Dr. Josh Denson, described and told NBC News, that the first phase of the disease is as 'slow-burn.'
Saying that the patients have mild symptoms for about a week before getting very sick.
Doctors from around the world have a lot of similar findings
According to DailyMail, in Denver, a pulmonologist in the critical care department at the National Jewish Health, Physician D. Ken Lyn-Kew has stated that he has seen a similar situation with patients of his own. "It seems like there's a period of time where the body is trying to sort out whether it can beat this or not. They're doing okay, and then all of a sudden they're really fatigued, a lot more shorter of breath and having chest pains."
Lyn-Kew has also said that these patients who turn extremely ill have ofter claimed that they feel a bit better before their symptoms completely decline.
Another Doctor, this time from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who is an infectious disease expert and also a professor of medicine at Wake Forest School, Christopher Ohl, has also experienced and observed the same cases regarding Lyn-Kew's findings.
Ohl shares his story with NBC News as well, saying that patients often tell him they're feeling much better and after a few short moments, 20-24 hours, they would have severe fatigue, fevers, coughs that have gotten worse and bad shortness of breath. Then they get hospitalized after.
According to the wife of a man from Washington state who has tested positive for the virus after his trip from Florida was one of the people who went through this kind of condition. Susan Kane said that her husband started to have a bad cough, expecting that it was nothing more than a cold and didn't have any kind of symptoms but aside from the cough.
The cough then had gotten worse a few days later, up to a point where he started to choke while gasping for air. He tested positive after a week and was hospitalized at Everett's Providence Regional Medical Center. Though, he did manage to survive and pull through after being on an experimental treatment at the said hospital.
Ohl has warned the public that they should be fully aware of what is going on. Doctors have also said that it is very important and crucial to keep track of how COVID-19 progresses as the days go by and that feeling better does not mean that the worst part is over.
