62-year-old Nadine Dorries felt ill on Friday (per The World Service) and arranged to be tested, and was tested and found to have the disease on Monday. Today she is tweeting that she is over the worst.
I've had mild colds that lasted longer than this!
I find it very encouraging that this seems to be a rather mild disease than otherwise, once the newspaper hype and twit hysteria is stripped away. Yes, people have died, but fewer than die of flu or pneumonia or many other diseases every winter.
FDRoosevelt said in a speech in 1933 that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. He was talking about the cause of the Great Depression, but it seems to me to apply here too -- well, not the only thing, because we could still get hit by a bus, but the main thing. Fear reinforces itself, as anyone knows who has watched a horror film with people who want to be scared by it, and then a horror film with people who want to laugh it it.
PS: I do actually know someone one who was hit by a bus. I don't as yet know anyone who has died of covid-19, not even at three or four removes, though I do know someone who knows someone whose workmate's colleague on a different job has it -- or possibly his workmate's colleague's wife has it, I'm not sure. Anyway, the person who has it is recovering a week after we heard about this, so they are unlikely to die at this point. And we only know because the self-isolation was being a nuisance about some work-thing.