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Because of my medical history of heart and COPD conditions, my doctors originally thought I was having just some new bouts of problems because I had no fever.<\/p>\n Subsequent testing, med changes, x-rays, and testing by my family doctor, cardiologist, and pulmonologist, it was concluded I did experience a\u00a0\u00a0serious COVID-19 infection.\u00a0\u00a0Since I already had Oxygen at home, it was instrumental in my not being hospitalized immediately.<\/p>\n I am still fighting lingering effects of respiratory, exhaustion, congestive heart failure, and diminished strength, I am however to feel somewhat better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Reprinted with permission from Dr. Joe Palsa, IEEE Life Member; wishing all a Happy, Safe and Healthy Thanksgiving] ARRL VIRGINIA SECTION NEWSLETTER FOR NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2020 Good morning on November 11,… Read more →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-richmond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/r3.ieee.org\/richmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/r3.ieee.org\/richmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/r3.ieee.org\/richmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r3.ieee.org\/richmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r3.ieee.org\/richmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/r3.ieee.org\/richmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/r3.ieee.org\/richmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r3.ieee.org\/richmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/r3.ieee.org\/richmond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]Come help be part of the solution!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"