A 38-year-old Italian fitness trainer has been hospitalized with COVID-19 for over two weeks. He doesn't know how he became infected. 'The disease is insidious,' he says. 'It walks with the legs of those who are asymptomatic.'
Fausto Russo, 38, has been in a hospital bed in Latina, Italy, for more than two weeks with COVID-19.Fausto Russo, 38, has been in a hospital bed in Latina, Italy, for more than two weeks with COVID-19.Italy has one of the world's oldest populations and its high COVID-19 death toll is mostly among the elderly with preexisting illnesses. But younger, healthy Italians have also become very sick after catching the new coronavirus.
"I run a fitness center, I train soccer teams, I'm a physical therapist," Russo says."I never smoked, my last fever was 10 years ago. Suddenly I'm catapulted onto a hospital bed, unable to breathe." "It is hard to imagine, time never passes," Russo says."Your body can't find the right position to sleep. It's so intense, I'll never forget it."
As he speaks to journalists, he is hoarse and says he feels tightening in his chest."This virus attacks the lungs," he says."This aggressive pneumonia is devastating. ... If I were older or sicker, I'd be dead. It feels like your head is being held underwater."population — 23% are 65 or older — as a possible factor in the country's high death rate from COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
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