My close colleague Professor Patrick Degenaar

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/engineering/staff/profile/patrickdegenaar.html

has just sent his report. With his permission I am pasting it here.

“I’ve now basically recovered from what I believe (it’s impossible to get a test) to have been a COVID19 infection.

Just so you know what you have to look forward to in the future, I kept a brief symptoms diary:

Day 1:   Very slight ache in joints

Day 2:   Asymptomatic

Day 3:   Tired, lethargic, dizzy, and out of breath

Day 4:   Reduced symptoms compared to day 3. Started to assume it was getting better.

Day 5:   Morning felt almost fine. Then afternoon: Very tired, very out of breath, heart palpitations, Mild temperature = 37.5C

Day 6:   Reduced symptoms compared to day 5, but still very tired and dizzy. New symptom: a chest pain – like a claw embedded in the chest.

Day 7:   Similar to day 6, but also developed an occasional dry cough

Day 8:   Much worse – extremely tired, very out of breath. Climbing the stairs felt like climbing Everest. Feeling like very bad high-altitude sickness. A feeling of nausea (just like bad high-altitude sickness)

Day 9:   Similar to day 8

Day 10: Starting to get better similar to day 5

Day 11: Starting to feel much better. Can ascend stairs without getting out of breath. But still tired and dizzy.

Day 12: almost OK, but still need periodic Siestas

Stay safe!”