A member of the board of Newborns Trust at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town wishes people would take the coronavirus more seriously.
In a Twitter thread on Thursday evening, Rachelle Bricou said she wasn't giving medical advice but wanted to speak directly to people who were carrying on normally with their lives.
“If you do end up in ICU, you are alone. Alone. No family to visit. No one to hold your hand. If you don’t survive, you die alone. And your family lives with not being able to be with you at the end. “It is an awful illness if you get it really badly. Awful. And again, a lonely one. If you think it won’t happen to you, why won’t it? What if you have an underlying disease you don’t know about it? What if.”
“My mom has lung cancer. She's healthy now, but despite the fact that she lives five minutes away I haven't seen her in months. I don't want to be the reason that someone dies. And it upsets me that my neighbours are having parties and braais all the time.”
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