It can take months to recover. People assume it's your fault and treat you differently. This is what COVID-19 survivors want you to know. - TODAYshow
from the hospital, which got 27,000 views overnight, she told TODAY. She received a lot of support, but the negative responses, including online hate groups, stuck with her.
Yvette Paz is giving back to her community after her coronavirus diagnosis by donating plasma and participating in food drives."The mental drain of that has been just as tough, if not more so, than the virus itself," she said."The overall message to the entire world is not to lose our humanity ... We’ve lost our ability to empathize and care for one another.
When Jennifer English went to the emergency room for her COVID-19 symptoms, she was treated "like a pariah" by medical staff, she told TODAY.Her own experience, she told TODAY, involved being treated poorly by medical professionals, which made her feel so much worse. "The first time I experienced was talking to my doctors," she said."They made me feel like a pariah … It’s like people almost think that it’s our fault that we got sick."Abby Steiner, 35, a psychiatric nurse from Omaha, Nebraska, told TODAY that her medical background altered the way she was treated.
"I can’t imagine people going through this and not knowing what I know," she recalled."Nothing against the doctor, but they didn’t really know what to do or say ... Find a way to advocate for yourself, and explain what’s going on and not let up on it.
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