ORLANDO, Fla. – Cindy Nieves, of Orlando, said she initially went to a clinic thinking she was experiencing allergy symptoms but after learning she had the novel coronavirus she was admitted to AdventHealth and eventually placed on ventilator fighting COVID-19. “I usually deal with allergies this time of year.
The headaches, sluggishness, tiredness ... a little bit of body ache, but I wasn’t concerned,” Nieves said. While Nieves was at the clinic last month to get more allergy medicine for her symptoms, she passed out and was taken to AdventHealth hospital in Altamonte Springs.
In a matter of hours, she found out she was positive for coronavirus. “They realized my oxygen levels were going down. At one point I was very pale.