‘Weird lung stuff and funky blood work’: Chris Cuomo says he still hasn’t fully recovered from coronavirus
‘I’m not back to where I was before I but I can work,’ CNN anchor says
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Your support makes all the difference.CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, who came down with a symptomatic case of Covid-19 in March, has said he still does not feel entirely normal nearly two months after he fell seriously ill.
Asked by fellow CNN host Dr Sanjay Gupta how he was feeling, Mr Cuomo described how some of the illness's confusing effects were persisting even as he returns to work.
“People who’ve been through this have strange tales to tell and not a lot of great answers from doctors to weird stuff in their blood work. I’m one of them.
“I still have weird stuff going on with my lungs. I’m not back to where I was before I had the virus but I can work. I can hang out. I can engage with my family.
“I’m gonna be able to do plasma donations … But I’m not 100 per cent. There is funky stuff in my blood work, that doctors say is what they see in people who’ve had Covid. So it freaks me out a little bit.”
The various damaging impacts of Covid-19 continue to baffle medics and researchers as they attempt to nail down the virus’s effects, with everything from multi-organ failure to stroke to blood clots appearing in different cases among different types of patient.
There are also indications that some recovered patients may suffer from reduced lung function to varying extents.
Mr Cuomo, the brother of New York governor Andrew Cuomo, detailed his symptoms to viewers from his basement in early April, describing a fever like nothing he had ever experienced, shivering so intense he chipped a tooth, and vivid hallucinations in which he heard his deceased father talking to him.
Speaking to Dr Gupta, he reflected on the sheer number of people who are suffering and reflected that his experience was hardly unique. “Commiserate is a word for a reason – people like to suffer together. So as long as there are other people who have the same kind of funky blood work I’ll just keep taking it one day at a time.”
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