At-Home Care Designed For COVID Likely Here To Stay At Cleveland Hospital

(By Brie Zeltner for Kaiser Health News)

CLEVELAND, Ohio — In late March, Andrea Laquatra began to feel sick. At first, it was an overwhelming fatigue, and the 32-year-old Cleveland mother of two tried to push through it.

A fever, headaches and body aches soon followed. Then she noticed she’d lost her senses of taste and smell.

By March 23, Laquatra could no longer deny the nagging fear she’d had since first falling ill: She might have COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, which by then had been detected in every state. That day, 351 new cases, 83 hospitalizations and three deaths were reported in Ohio.  Continue reading article here…

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