A man who suffered from coronavirus said it felt like his body was "burning up" during what felt like the "most devastating flu" of his life.
Leon Chase became ill around a week after coming into contact with an infected person at the beginning of March. The New Yorker began to suffer from "intense bouts of fever" that left him needing to wear three jumpers one moment, before burning up the next. " Coronavirus feels like the most devastating flu I have ever had," he said.
Several days after he first fell ill the filmmaker developed a "very annoying dry cough". His appetite had completely disappeared, and the small amounts of food he could eat tasted "very gross".