New York humorist Jason Chatfield chronicled his experience with the illness, from symptoms to recovery.
Day 5 was the worst. The debilitating symptoms from covid-19 came in waves as Jason Chatfield remained horizontal in an empty house in Tulsa. He didn’t want to down food. He had trouble sitting upright enough to drink water. And despite his need for sleep, the fever and shivering kept him awake for hours at a time.
pandemic on a remote farm in rural Oklahoma. The irony is, they believe they contracted covid-19 while traveling west.Chatfield, an artistic contributor to the New Yorker, Mad and Wired, has created an online comic about a dozen days of suffering the symptoms, titledThe headings to describe his ordeal include “Denial,” “Netflix and the Chills,” “Pass Out in the Shower” and “Panic.”
Plus, Chatfield feels chastened himself by having been less careful at one point. He and his wife had been vigilant in New York, even bleaching banisters in their building that houses many older tenants. They also disinfected their plane seats as they flew out of LaGuardia shortly before the city was ordered to shelter in place — about two dozen passengers on a 175-seat flight.
He and his wife self-isolated at the Tulsa house after leaving the farm of their two friends, who never contracted covid-19. By Day 5, the cartoonist writes in the comic, he felt “punched in the face” by the virus: “You realize you lost your sense of smell three days ago. Also taste.”
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