REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: 'Catching the virus didn’t feel like it could happen to me.'
I called my superiors, thinking to myself,"It's definitely just the flu," and proceeded to explain that it may be best if I take the day off out of an abundance of caution.Some of my interviews included Skype and FaceTime sessions with college students from the Philadelphia area who were being sent home as cases swept through Europe.
By midday, I had begun to feel chills. Once the appointment was booked, my girlfriend and I masked up and drove to the site. WPVI reporter George Solis visits a COVID-19 testing site in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, after contracting the virus in March of 2020.Lines of cars awaited us as we inched closer to makeshift tents surrounded by medical staff in PPE."There will be some discomfort," the test administrator told me as the large swab entered my nose. Honestly, I'd say he undersold it. My eyes watered. What was at best five seconds, felt like five minutes.
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