Dr. Michael Saag described the illness as a 'horror.'
He was diagnosed with COVID-19 just over one month ago, on March 16. He described the illness as a"horror" that included fever, muscle aches, fatigue and difficulty thinking.
Dr. Michael Saag is an infectious disease expert, and director of the Center for AIDS Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He also just recovered from COVID-19.Now fully recovered, Saag, an infectious diseases doctor, treats other COVID-19 patients at a clinic in Birmingham. NBC News spoke with Saag recently about his experience with the illness, which he recovered from without needing to be hospitalized. The conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.It's been an interesting ride; a scary roller coaster, and every night is horrible. The mornings are better, but it sort of teases folks — myself included — into thinking that it's going away. And then, boom,! It comes right back. For me, that went on for eight days in a row.
I would sit awake, counting the minutes until morning almost, wondering if my breathing was going to get worse and I'd end up on a ventilator. The nights are so bad, because as a physician, I know what can happen. And so I would sit awake, counting the minutes until morning almost, wondering if my breathing was going to get worse and I'd end up on a ventilator. That was the horror of it.We don't have a proven treatment and I think that's essential to understand. It points out how spoiled we've become in the world of medicine.
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