Utahns Battling Long-Term Effects Of COVID-19 Reinfected
Dec 10, 2020, 10:02 PM
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Officials with the Centers for Disease Control say COVID-19 reinfection is possible, and reinfection cases have been reported — but they are rare. However, for Utahn Tanya and her family, dealing with COVID-19 a second time is not any easier.
“Thursday night I started getting a sore throat and I just crawled up in my bed and I cried and cried,” Tanya said. “I prayed with all my heart, ‘Please don’t let me get sick again, I cannot do this again.’”
At the beginning of the pandemic, Tanya, her husband and two of her children tested positive for the virus. Tanya’s case was the worst.
Can you get COVID-19 twice? The CDC says it’s possible…reinfection cases have been reported but are rare.
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“I thought I was going to die. I thought there’s no way my body could survive this something majorly was wrong,” she said. “It was like I’m at a really high elevation like on Mount Everest and I can’t breathe.”
So she was in shock when her daughter and husband got positive results this past week. She received her positive test result on Thursday.
Her symptoms, although not as severe, just started.
“The antibodies weren’t able to prevent me from getting sick again, so I’m a prime example you can get it again,” she said.
Her message is one echoed by Utahn Drew Stott who too believes he had COVID-19 before testing was available and is now recovering from a positive test result he got last month.
“I was really really doubting that I had COVID again,” Stott said.
He hopes his story and others like it will encourage Utahns to continue to mask up.
“Even if you’ve had it, that doesn’t mean you can’t get it again and you can’t be passing it around to people you care about,” he said.