Infectious disease expert who has coronavirus says public health cannot be overlooked again
"One of the things we need to learn from this is we have to invest in our public health infrastructure, invest in our science, invest in global surveillance so things like this never happen again," Lipkin said on ""That's something we're not thinking about right now, but we should be doing so very soon, if not now," added Lipkin, who himself became sick with COVID-19.
He said it was after his self-quarantine was over that he became ill, developing symptoms that include a "terrible headache" and a "persistent cough that I still have to this day." "It's 12 days into this illness for me and my voice is abnormal. I'm still coughing and I don't have the usual energy level. But I did not require hospitalization, and I'm grateful for that," he added.
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