Some recovered COVID-19 patients feel like social outcasts as misconceptions about the virus persist.
Don Udan spent almost three weeks on a ventilator while hospitalized with COVID-19, but he has been slowly returning to his normal life since being discharged April 21.“When I had my appointment to get an ultrasound on my leg, the tech found out I was in a hospital diagnosed with COVID, and she right away left the room,” Udan said. “She kind of freaked out.”
Udan hasn’t faced those types of issues but has noticed friends being especially sensitive around him since his recovery. “I call it COVID shaming,” Harris said. “It’s a real thing that happens. It happened to me for weeks after my healing.” “Yes, lots of people have died,” he said. “And we remember those lives. However, this virus is not killing everybody. And also, if I get it, I don’t want to think of death. I want to think of life. I want to be healthy.”Chula Vista City Councilman Steve Padilla contracted COVID-19 and was hospitalized for three weeks, spending 11 days on a respirator. He lost about 30 pounds by the time he was released April 4.
Padilla recalled coming face to face with someone who questioned medical experts and dismissed the pandemic as a hoax. He was in line at a grocery store with his daughter, who started to fume at the conversation she was overhearing.She interrupted the women speaking in front of them by saying she had overheard their conversation and would like to introduce them to her father, who almost died of COVID-19.
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