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TexasTowelie

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Tue Apr 7, 2020, 11:39 AM Apr 2020

Doctor who had COVID-19 says most infected people will be fine. How many did he infect?

Lowan Stewart, an emergency medicine doctor who splits his time between Santa Fe and Norway, said he, his wife and their two children all had COVID-19.

Stewart said he was flat on his back for five days and coughing for another week. His family members experienced less severe symptoms, possibly due to their age and gender.

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“It started with a couple of days of mild headache,” he said. His wife, filmmaker Tonje Schei, was feeling a bit off too, but they still attended the premiere for iHuman, a film she’d been working on for the past five years.

“We went to the premiere with like 1,000 people,” he said. “I hugged probably 200 of them.”

At the after-party, he said, there was more hugging and dancing.

Read more: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/coronavirus/doctor-who-had-covid-19-says-most-infected-people-will-be-fine/article_eda6a666-75ca-11ea-9b6b-678bf34aa9b4.html

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