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One night in mid-February, Helena Kramer sent a text message to her family. Then she lay down on the bed, tired and lethargic. “It feels like when I had covid for the first time,” he wrote.
It was in May of last year that he tested positive for the first time. The following month, he had a new test that showed that his body had developed antibodies against the disease.
This time it started the fact that her preschooler fell ill with what appeared to be the common cold. Helena wiggled with him for a few days and also began to get a sore throat. She then took a test primarily as a routine measure, because she was convinced it just had to be a common cold. But over the weekend it got worse and on Sunday they told him that he had tested positive for covid-19 again.
– When I did the test I could have thought it was just a cold, I never thought I would do it again, it must be the ultimate bad luck!
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Helena Kramer lives in Furuvik on the outskirts of Gävle, in the Gävleborg region, which currently has the highest spread of infection in all of Sweden. The region’s infection control believes the explanation for this is that the so-called British mutation of the virus has now taken hold so strongly here. As of early March, that variant of the virus accounted for no less than 57 percent of all positive self-sampling test results in Gävleborg.
“I never thought I would do it again,” says Helena Kramer after falling ill again with covid-19.
Photo: Stefan Westrin
So Helena Kramer thinks it’s probably the British variant she’s received this time. But she can’t be sure. She did not discover any of those details in her test answer.
– I have wondered a bit about it, is there someone you can contact and ask about it? For the region, it still keeps those statistics, even if they don’t print them in the magazine.
Helena Kramer says that she you have not yet really recovered from the first time you suffered from covid-19. And that she was initially skeptical when she started talking about long-term covid, but that she believes she has it herself now.
Because since May, when he first contracted COVID-19, it’s like he’s been getting sick two, three or four times a month, he says.
– I start to freeze and get tired, my head and throat hurt. The fatigue that occurs is as if someone has just turned off the engine, he says.
When we speak, it has been almost three weeks since she tested positive for the second time and she is still not healthy. She says that even though she sleeps 8 to 9 hours a night, she is still tired when she wakes up.
His eyes are burning, he has a high heart rate and palpitations, and “he freezes terribly, so much so that his skin hurts.”
This surprises her, as she had previously read that the infection would be much milder for those unlucky enough to be affected a second time. In that case, it’s not true for her, she says.
You recently received a text message. from their child’s preschool where they wanted to report that they had found the spread of covid-19 in the preschool. So now you think that you probably contracted the infection from your three-year-old son, who in turn contracted it in preschool.
– It is interesting considering that it has always been said that young children do not get sick and do not transmit infections, says Helena.
– It is clear that despite the fact that before they have said with crossed confidence that “no no, that’s nothing to worry about”, it seems that there are new discoveries all the time.
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