CNN's Brooke Baldwin says her experience while battling coronavirus taught her that human connection is vital for health and happiness.
Updated 2025 GMT April 20, 2020We are publishing personal essays from CNN's global staff as they live and cover the story of Covid-19. Brooke Baldwin anchors the 2-4p.m. edition of CNN Newsroom. Based in New York, she was recently diagnosed with coronavirus.
New York It took a full two-week beating on my body. I went to some very dark places, especially at night. Evenings would bring on an eerie melancholy, which was particularly odd for me -- a glass-half-full/chemically blessed kind of gal. But under the influence of coronavirus, as each day came to a close, I would often cry, unable to stave off the sense of dread and isolation I felt about what was to come.Baldwin said the illness often brought her to tears. She took this photo to remember how bad she felt, physically and emotionally.I was fighting constant body aches.
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