Richard Quest says he’s recovered from COVID-19 but is more clumsy

Richard Austin Quest, an English journalist and a Cable News Network (CNN) International anchor has come out to share his experience after being diagnosed with COVID-19 in mid-April 2020.

Quest who is also CNN’s business editor at large said although doctors assured him he will not contract the disease again after he was discharged, he fears he might have caught the virus again.

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Richard Quest says he’s recovered from COVID-19 but is more clumsy, fall over a lot
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He shared his story with the network revealing he had developed new symptoms which seemed worse than the first time he contracted the virus which he likened to a tornado with a long tail.

“The cough has come back, without warning and seemingly for no reason; so has the fatigue. True, neither are as debilitating as when I had the actual virus, but they are back,” said Quest.

“Like many others, I am now coming to realize that I am living and suffering from the long tail of COVID-19,” he added.

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Quest announced April 20 2020, on CNN that he had tested positive, but did not have fatigue or difficulty breathing, though he did have a cough.

He got tested and the morning after he received a phone call from the medical centre informing him he had tested positive for coronavirus.

According to the anchor, the virus was like a tornado in such a way that when it lands, it swirls through the body, causing chaos, confusion, coughs, wreaking damage to each organ it touched.

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“Some will not survive its visit. For those that do, when it has gone, one surveys the damage to the human landscape and realizes it’s much greater than first thought,” he said.

He described the cough which was his persistent symptom as an unusual one unlike the cough-it-up deep cough – what doctors call a productive cough. His was very distinctive.

“It is a dry, raspy, wheezy, cough. In my case, lots of short, expelling gasps of air, followed by a long, deep, chest-wrenching expiration cough, that has standers-by wondering if I am going to keel over,” narrated Quest.

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The business editor has since tested negative for the virus but positive for the antibodies and he further noted that he was also discovering new areas of damage caused by the virus.

According to him, he had become incredibly clumsy.

“I was never the most lissome person, no one ever called me graceful, but my clumsiness is off the chart,” he said.

“If I reach for a glass or take something out of a cupboard, I will knock it, or drop it on the floor. I have tripped over the curb and gone flying. I fall over furniture,” he added.

It is as if that part of my brain, which subconsciously adjusts hand and movement to obstacles it sees, isn’t working.

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At times, he said, he got a sense of mild confusion. A micro delay in thought, hesitation with a word which nobody would notice but him and his digestive system was peculiar, to say the least.

“It doesn’t matter whether I call them symptoms, traits, or wreckage — my body doesn’t feel quite right,” he said.

“For those who have not had COVID, or witnessed the mess it leaves behind, again, I urge you, do whatever you can to avoid this tornado,” he concluded.