{"id":144265,"date":"2020-05-15T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/05\/15\/weird-as-hell-professor-recalls-advent-calendar-of-covid-19-symptoms\/"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:40:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T13:40:49","slug":"weird-as-hell-professor-recalls-advent-calendar-of-covid-19-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=144265","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Weird as hell\u2019: professor recalls \u2018advent calendar\u2019 of Covid-19 symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Garner is among researchers collaborating across borders to work out how to support severe and chronic patientsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn mid-March Paul Garner developed what he thought was a \u201cbit of a cough\u201d. A professor of infectious diseases, Garner was discussing the new coronavirus with David Nabarro, the UK\u2019s special envoy on the pandemic. At the end of the Zoom call, Nabarro advised Garner to go home immediately and to self-isolate. Garner did. He felt no more than a \u201clittle bit off\u201d.Days later, he found himself fighting a raging infection. It\u2019s one he likens to being \u201cabused by somebody\u201d or clubbed over the head with a cricket bat. \u201cThe symptoms were weird as hell,\u201d he says. They included loss of smell, heaviness, malaise, tight chest and racing heart. At one point Garner thought he was about to die. He tried to Google \u201cfulminating myocarditis\u201d but was too unwell to navigate the screen. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/15\/weird-hell-professor-advent-calendar-covid-19-symptoms-paul-garner\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Weird as hell\u2019: professor recalls \u2018advent calendar\u2019 of Covid-19 symptoms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Garner is among researchers collaborating across borders to work out how to support severe and chronic patientsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn mid-March Paul Garner developed what he thought was a \u201cbit of a cough\u201d. A professor of infectious diseases, Garner was discussing the new coronavirus with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}