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I Am a Young Black Mother Who Tested Positive for Coronavirus
This 42-year-old work-from-home marketing executive shares her experience with Covid-19
Michelle Jordan* is a 42-year-old single mother of two daughters, six and nine years old, in Charlotte, North Carolina. A marketing executive who works from home, Jordan started feeling unwell after returning from a conference in Las Vegas earlier this month. On March 14, she was diagnosed with coronavirus. Here’s her story.
I woke up on Friday, March 6, the day after I returned from a conference in Las Vegas, feeling tired and very cold. Meanwhile my two girls, who were home with me, were in shorts and T-shirts in the house (their school had a previously scheduled break for Friday and the following Monday). The temperature reached 56 degrees that day. Something wasn’t right.
I work from home, so I logged on to my laptop and worked until about 4:30. I was cold all day. I took a shower to warm up, put on sweats, and got under a few blankets. I was still cold. After I made dinner, I took cold and flu medicine. I thought perhaps this was the effect of losing a whole night’s sleep by catching a red-eye flight. Plus, I had been dealing with the time difference while I was away.
