Covid-19 recoveries: ‘It was the most terrifying experience of my life’
People in the UK who have returned to health after fighting off coronavirus tell their stories
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“I could tell the nurses were as scared as me; they told me my coronavirus test was positive as if I was going to die,” says Ati, 41, who was admitted to hospital in Edinburgh after suffering from a fever, a constant cough, abdominal and chest pain, shortness of breath and the loss of her sense of smell and taste.
She had initially been told by 111 call responders to nurse her symptoms at home, but was instructed to go to hospital after coughing up blood.
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