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“This is a very scary feeling”: a Russian-speaking doctor from New York told how she had been ill with COVID-19

'02.04.2020'

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Quarantine in New York should have been announced back in February, said gastroenterologist Veronika Dubrovskaya. She suggests that she became infected from her patient because she was not defending herself properly. And all because I didn’t know: the coronavirus probably covered the city much earlier than it is commonly thought. She told about this in the video of the publication "Voice of America".

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Who is more often infected with COVID-19

It is impossible to say for sure why some of us get sick with the coronavirus COVID-19, and some do not. This point of view was shared by the gastroenterologist Veronika Dubrovskaya, who was confirmed to have a coronavirus. “I suspect I got the infection while doing procedures for patients,” she said.

According to her, until March 12 of this year, neither she nor her colleagues suspected how common the COVID-19 virus was in New York. Closer to March 16, it became known about a huge number of people infected with this virus.

“As a doctor, unfortunately, I did not protect myself against the virus. When I did the procedures, I did them with a normal surgical mask, ”she recalls. Although, Dubrovskaya added, doing an endoscopy to a person who has a confirmed virus, you need to protect yourself with a specific mask.

Only on March 14, she said, a resolution was issued prohibiting meeting with patients in the clinic, if this is not an extreme case. Thus, everyone switched to distance medicine. If the patient needs emergency assistance, then the meeting takes place in the office. But the doctor should dress “as needed,” Victoria said.

Since Dubrovskaya fell ill almost at the beginning of the New York epidemic, medicine was not yet ready to work with such patients - because all the symptoms were not known, she explained. Now, two weeks later, the situation has improved, Victoria added, and doctors gained experience working with such patients.

About the symptoms

Talking about symptoms, Victoria noted that at first she stopped smelling and taste. It happened one day. “I couldn't smell coffee or gas from the hotplate,” she recalls. This struck her as strange.

The situation worsened the next day. “I started having bone pains and crazy headaches that we usually feel when the temperature rises. But there was no temperature, ”she added.

Victoria also felt severe weakness. Later, there was a feeling of strong compression in the chest, which many people infected with COVID-19 complain about. “It's a very scary feeling,” she said.

The epidemic began much earlier

According to Victoria, New York should have been "closed" in February. “What is happening now should have happened on February 1st, I think,” she said.

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Dubrovskaya noted that they discussed the situation with other doctors, and came to the conclusion that they had patients with coronavirus back in January. “But we didn’t think we had them (there is - Ed.). There are a lot of people in New York who travel, especially business travelers. Especially in Midtown. That is, people from all countries come to the conferences. So I think that in January the coronavirus was already in New York, ”she said.

But at the same time, added Victoria, the doctors did not know about it. This is because the symptoms of this virus can be different. Some people have diarrhea, headache, loss of taste or odors, and broken bones. “That is, there is no such completely typical presentation. But even with a typical presentation, we did not have tests and we did not ask (to provide them - Ed.), Because we did not expect (a virus outbreak - Ed.). We just called it pneumonia and went on, thinking that we don't have it, ”she summed up.

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