Excerpt from the Wright State Guardian
“You feel like you have that big red letter on the front of your chest like ‘oh, I have a big C, a red C for corona.’ I’ve had it, and nobody still wants to be near you,” said Wright State University chemistry lecturer Michelle Newsome.
Newsome is one member of the community who has battled the coronavirus since March. Students, professors and their families have all fought the virus together.
Spending time around her elderly parents, who contracted it in June, is how Newsome was exposed to it.
“They got coronavirus during the last week of June and I was the one that took them to the doctor,” Newsome said. “We were in the car unmasked, my dad’s in the back with a fever and all that, and so I was like ‘oh, I’m pretty sure I can’t get it.’”
Four days later, she tested positive.
Some within the WSU community have received multiple diagnoses, and these second instances have often been much harder to fight off than the first.
Senior Maxwell Gentile, an organizational leadership student, first experienced the coronavirus in late March. After he initially caught the virus, Gentile’s body felt unchanged.
“The only thing I had was a runny nose and a slight cough, but other than that, I didn’t show any symptoms,” Gentile said. He was running a slight fever at the time, but that only lasted for two days.
