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Impressive experience

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Impressive experience

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When the Covid-19 outbreak first started in New York, it was unfortunate that all of my family was positive. In March 2020, after someone in New York was diagnosed positive, my family did not want me to go out and during that time I was in high school and working part-time. My family including most relatives also started not to work and quarantined at home. One day, one of my aunts came to my house with a cold and a cough, but we didn't think much of it because she just got the flu shot so we figured it might be the aftermath of the shot. After two or three days, we started to have different symptoms. I remember I started with a sore throat, a headache, a fever, and then lost my sense of taste and smell. My relatives also showed different degrees of symptoms, and my grandma had the most severe symptoms. She first had a sore throat, a cold, and a low-grade fever, and then she kept having diarrhea and couldn't eat which caused her to lose almost 10 pounds in just one week. During that time, one of my aunts came to take care of my grandma. Throughout the duration of my grandma being ill my aunt was running on only a few hours of sleep per day since she had to keep an eye over my grandma. I remember that the hospitals in New York were full at that time, many patients died without receiving treatment, and refrigerated trucks were parked outside the hospital to store the dead bodies of patients. The TV news also showed that many people were protesting against the announcement of masks being mandatory when going out. None of them believed that Covid-19 would be serious enough to kill people, and this frustrated me, making me feel the urge to express my feelings towards how serious this virus is. I saw that my grandma's condition was getting worse and worse. We also thought about calling an ambulance to take her to the hospital, but we were afraid that we would not get treatment and we would not be able to visit the hospital. We felt very hopeless. We were on the last straw, thus we were all discussing that if grandma didn't show any signs of improvement the next day, our last resort is to have my grandma sent to the hospital. As a result, the following day, my grandma started to eat and did not continue to have a fever, and her condition began to improve. Overall, Covid-19 has brought my family a lot of distress and I am glad that Covid-19 has started to settle and everything is slowly getting back to normal again.
Junior undergraduate majoring in health& nutrition

Date (Dublin Core)

April 8, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

I am sole creator

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Xinyu Mo

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HNSC2100
Spring2023
ProfessorMargretheHorlyck-Romanovsky

Partner (Dublin Core)

Brooklyn College

Type (Dublin Core)

Test story

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Biography
English Emotion
English Health & Wellness
English Home & Family Life
English Pandemic Skeptics

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

New York
family
sick
hospital
distress
grandma
protest
mask mandate

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

family

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Brooklyn College HNSC Prompt

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

02/27/2023

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

03/01/2023
03/02/2023
10/20/2023

Date Created (Dublin Core)

02/27/2023

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Covid 19
Brooklyn College

This item was submitted on February 27, 2023 by Xinyu Mo using the form “Share Your Story With Us” on the site “Brooklyn College New York”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/brooklyncollege

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