The day before Benjamin Barksdale Jr. tested positive for COVID-19, he had a fever of 101 degrees, body aches and aching joints.맥스카지노�I had never experienced pain like that. It was crazy,맥스카지노� he said of the disease. 맥스카지노�It was just 맥스카지노� weird. It felt like I was 100 years old.맥스카지노�While people range wildly with their symptoms of COVID-19, from displaying none at all to requiring ventilators and dying, extreme cases are not the norm.Above video: Some patients recover at home with patient-monitoring programIn fact, Harvard health experts have noted that most people are able to recover from the disease at home. Yale doctors have also said most cases are mild, even noting practices where many 맥스카지노� even most 맥스카지노� patients did not require hospitalization.For Barksdale, his headache made him feel like his head was going to crack open, and it hurt just to bend his knees.Barksdale, Orlando's fire chief, isolated himself in his high-rise apartment overlooking Lake Eola, even as his wife remained with him. He wore a mask indoors and wiped down everything, and she didn맥스카지노�t seem to catch the virus.He stopped working for four days, got sleep and fluids, sought out soups and fruit and stayed away from caffeine. He took Tylenol for the fever, and he felt good about the seventh or eighth day. About the ninth or 10th day, he was ready to go and went back to work on June 29.Most patients don't require hospitalizationBecause it맥스카지노�s so unclear how people might react and other factors, physicians urge people to adhere to public health measures that include wearing a mask, physical distancing and proper hand hygiene.But for those who get COVID-19, the disease is manageable.맥스카지노�If, God forbid, you get this virus, more than likely, if you맥스카지노�re younger than 60 or 65 and you don맥스카지노�t have underlying medical problems, you맥스카지노�re going to do OK,맥스카지노� said Dr. Joshua Septimus, with Houston Methodist. 맥스카지노�And you맥스카지노�re going to recover in a relatively quick fashion.맥스카지노�Septimus has had about 25 patients with the disease, and only one required hospitalization, which involved a few nights there without the need for intensive care before going home and recovering.All of his younger patients resumed normal activities within a 10-day period. People in their 70s made full recoveries, too, but underlying medical problems, including obesity, can complicate matters and prolong recoveries. For details on COVID-19 symptoms and what to do if you're sick, click here for info from the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionDoctors stress preventionBecause the disease is deadlier than the flu and there맥스카지노�s no proven medication to treat COVID-19, Septimus urges people to follow mask and distancing guidelines. He said his patients frequently got the disease from people who don맥스카지노�t fully adhere to wearing masks frequently spread the virus at work.맥스카지노�We are going to have to live with this virus for a long time,맥스카지노� he says. That means it맥스카지노�s important to continue taking precautions and doing so seriously, Septimus said. Even though most recovering patients are staying home, there's an unpredictability with how one's body might respond, he said.He and other doctors stress there맥스카지노�s no typical coronavirus case, and there맥스카지노�s such a spectrum in how people's bodies respond to the disease.맥스카지노�A typical COVID case 맥스카지노� doesn맥스카지노�t seem to exist,맥스카지노� said Dr. Hallie Prescott, of the University of Michigan Health System.맥스카지노�I think there is this perception out there that, 맥스카지노�I맥스카지노�m either going to get COVID and I맥스카지노�m going to fully recover맥스카지노� or 맥스카지노�I맥스카지노�m going to get COVID and I맥스카지노�m going to die from it,맥스카지노�맥스카지노� said Dr. Emily Brigham of Johns Hopkins University. Brigham said there's so much in between that many people don't account for and don't think about. While many people may have mild symptoms that don맥스카지노�t impact their daily lives, such as loss of taste or smell, some may have severe symptoms that escalate rapidly, Brigham said.Brigham advises patients who do get the disease to stay in close contact with their doctor.맥스카지노�It맥스카지노�s a spectrum of outcomes,맥스카지노� she said. 맥스카지노�It맥스카지노�s not cut and dry.맥스카지노�Reducing COVID-19 severitySome doctors suggest that wearing a mask could further reduce the impact of the disease, making cases milder.Prescott likens it to wearing a seatbelt: Although it doesn맥스카지노�t prevent 100% of vehicular deaths, it can make an injury less severe.맥스카지노�We cannot overwhelm our hospital systems again and again and again and again,맥스카지노� Brigham said. 맥스카지노�We cannot be having providers get sick, which reduces our capacity as well. We cannot be having more patients than our hospitals can take care of in any given time because that is when맥스카지노� death rates will sharply increase, she said.맥스카지노�It맥스카지노�s so hard to see that happening in some areas of the country and the world right now when there are some interventions that we know work맥스카지노� when broadly supported and implemented, Brigham said, 맥스카지노�which includes mask wearing, social distancing and just being cautious.맥스카지노�Frontline workers mitigating spreadOrlando맥스카지노�s fire department eventually had 108 firefighters test positive for the disease, and an additional 125 had to be in quarantine, affecting nearly half of Barksdale맥스카지노�s force of 536 firefighters.While the department had a staffing plan in place, Barksdale notes there wasn맥스카지노�t a lapse in service.His advice for other agencies? 맥스카지노�Don맥스카지노�t assume that it won맥스카지노�t happen to you.맥스카지노� 맥스카지노�People just need to realize 맥스카지노� it맥스카지노�s not about you,맥스카지노� he said. 맥스카지노�It맥스카지노�s about everyone around you.맥스카지노�