Um figurinista LGBT+ compartilhou sua experiência com o coronavírus e alertou as pessoas de todos os lugares a tratarem a pandemia com seriedade.

Escrevendo no Instagram, Tarek Soliman, que projetou o capacete de Sasha Velour para o final da temporada 10 de RuPaul’s Drag Race, compartilhou sua experiência com o COVID-19.

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Here’s my story with coronavirus, especially for young people who think this virus isn’t dangerous. .😷🤒🤕 . I started feeling chills and my body felt weak on March 8th, I thought it is a normal cold/flu that will heal soon. It started hitting me when I was on the bus from DC to NYC. High temperature, severe chills, sweating, body aches, terrible headache, I stayed home for 5 days and continued to monitor my symptoms thinking that it maybe just a bad flu. After the fifth day I went to urgent care because my symptoms has been getting worse, by the time the doctor started running some tests I fainted and they called the ambulance 🚑, after they transferred me to mount Sinai. From the moment I got there I was kept in an isolated room by myself, they definitely didn’t know what to do. They ran some tests on me every 4 hours, with no information or telling me what I have or what’s wrong with me, I was shaking and felt like I was dying with only IVs in my arm. After they took some blood and swapped my nose for covid-19 test I waited again until 4 am in the morning, I got discharged and sent home after 12 hours in the ER and instructed to only take Tylenol. . the hospitals and USA is completely unprepared for this, I don’t recommend relying on hospitals or the healthcare system. After 4 days I got my test result back that I am positive. I still have the same symptoms with no progress, but I started developing pneumonia and can’t breathe normally because there is NO cure, it was followed by coughing blood, now I have no fever but I still can’t breathe normally, apparently the virus has spread into my lungs. . I am still not cured or healed from covid-19 and I will be going to the emergency room again for my developed pneumonia.. ( doctors and everyone in the ER have no idea how to deal with this virus, they are only depending on your body to fight it) . PLEASE SHARE so more people know that this isn’t something small we are dealing with, be responsible and stay home. I don’t want anyone to go through what I am going through now. Stay safe ❤️

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Ele disse que queria que “os jovens que pensam que esse vírus não é perigoso” prestassem atenção e começassem a realizar o distanciamento social, para ajudar a conter a crise.

“Comecei a sentir calafrios e meu corpo estava fraco em 8 de março”, escreveu Soliman. Ele inicialmente pensou que era um resfriado ou gripe. Enquanto viajava de ônibus de Washington DC para Nova York, começou a sentir “a temperatura aumentar, calafrios severos, sudorese, dores no corpo e uma terrível dor de cabeça”.

Ele ficou em casa por cinco dias, ainda pensando que estava com gripe forte, mas no quinto dia, seus sintomas pioraram e ele procurou tratamento médico. “Quando o médico começou a fazer alguns testes, eu desmaiei e eles chamaram a ambulância”, escreveu.

“Desde o momento em que cheguei [ao hospital] fiquei sozinho em uma sala isolada, eles definitivamente não sabiam o que fazer. Fizeram alguns testes comigo a cada quatro horas, sem informações ou me dizendo o que tenho ou o que havia de errado comigo”, compartilhou.

Após 12 horas no departamento de emergência, ele foi liberado para casa. Quatro dias depois, foi informado de que havia testado positivo para o coronavírus.

Ao escrever o post, Soliman contou que mantinha os mesmo sintomas e que e que estava lutando para respirar, além de ter desenvolvido pneumonia.

Ele acrescentou: “não estamos lidando com algo pequeno, seja responsável e fique em casa. Não quero que ninguém passe pelo que estou passando agora. Fique seguro”.