COVID-19 isn’t always death sentence.
Here, patients who have contracted it and survived share their COVID-19 recovery stories.
With numbers so devastating, its hard to remember the other sidethose who survived the disease.
So far, its estimated thatmore than 37 million patientshave recovered in the United States.
Many people have stories of recovery to tell.
These are their COVID-19 recovery stories.
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A teacher at P.S.
32 in Brooklyn, Cuomo fell ill one week afterNew York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio closed schools.
Many teachers were working that week to attend meetings and distance-learning training.
I said to my mother, I need to stay away from you,' she says.
I saw too many people before work had officially closed.
I said to my mother, I need to stay away from you.'
Later that evening, she had a fever.
She and her sister were tested for COVID-19 on March 24 and 25, 2020, respectively.
Her sister tested positive, but Cuomo says her results never made it back.
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Just when she was at her worst, her mother began feeling sick.
I couldnt even function to even think about it, she says.
We would keep in touch with the phone and we stayed totally isolated.
Because they all got sick and were recovering, they felt it safe to spend Easter together.
Cuomos sister posted a picture of them on Facebook sharing their recovery story.
People were wearing masks, there was so much coughing and weird things happening, says Munson.
The lady directly behind us, she was crying and inconsolable.
We looked at each other like, What is going on?'
Then he developed a fever and a dry cough.
He reached out to his doctor a few times, and was told not to come in.
He was never able to get tested, nor was one of his travel mates.
But the third one, who lives in Colorado, tested positive.
Its Amazing How Its All Connected.
By the following week, Walrond says his lungs felt like they were on fire.
The scariest part is the cough and the progressive challenge with breathing.
Asthma saved my life, he says.
Walrond has recovered, but the Bronx resident could have had a much bleaker outcome.
I kind of felt like I failed, she says.
It started with fogginess and fatigue.
A Google search convinced her to visit the hospital, which is a few blocks from her Bushwick apartment.
I kind of felt like I failed.
My husband walked me there, they took us in, and I started crying.
Marquina didnt have a dry cough or a fever, and so she says thedoctorswouldnt test her for COVID-19.
After a few X-rays and a night at the hospital, she was sent home.
The couple, who married in September of 2019, are now feeling much better.
Though they were both sick, they managed to support one another.
We were both there for each other for mental support.
Hes definitely been there for me through the whole thing.
I mean, I dont have any underlying health conditions, but Igetthings.
I thought I must have swallowed my oatmeal wrong, she says.
A few days later she woke up in the middle of the night sweating.
The morning brought a terrible sore throat, headache, deep coughs, and chest pains.
It felt like a belt around my chest, she says.
It felt like a belt around my chest.
And then they tell you to keep your hands up so you dont touch anything, she says.
She walked in, and the staff looked like they were prepped for surgery.
She was sent to a room and sat on a chair covered with a trash bag.
Multiple doctors questioned her about her symptoms.
After a flu test came back negative, doctors administered a COVID-19 test.
She got a call relaying her positive results three days later.
Catherine self-isolated in her bedroom away from her fiance.
Luckily, he never got the virus, but Catherine was lonely.
As an extrovert, I dont know how to manage being alone for a week, she says.
So they came to an agreementshe was allowed to cuddle with one of their dogs.
Her fiance refrained from touching that dog until Catherine felt better.
It knocked them out, stripped them of energy, and brought them face-to-face with their own mortality.
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