Nurses claim a previously unreported coronavirus symptom in tearful CNN interview [View all]

In an exclusive interview with CNN, nurses from the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington that saw the first major outbreak of the coronavirus tearfully described trying to care for their charges and revealed new details about symptoms their patients experienced.

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During the extensive interview, nurse Chelsey Earnest said she saw symptoms that have not been noted by the media.

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“It’s something that I witnessed in all of them,” Earnest recalled. “They have, like — you can describe it like allergy eyes. The white part of your eye is not red, it’s more like they have red eye shadow on the outside of their eyes. But we’ve had patients that just had the red eyes as the only symptom that we saw and go to the hospital and pass away in the hospital.”

“I’ve even had the disaster medical control physician say, ‘Do they have the red eyes?’ And I will say yes. And he’ll say, ‘I’ll find you a bed.’ It’s just something about this, the way that it affects these patients.”

According to CNN’s Sidner, red eyes as a COVID-19 symptom is not currently noted on the Centers for Disease Control website.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/nurses-reveal-a-previously-unreported-coronavirus-symptom-in-tearful-cnn-interview/