Life in the Time of Coronavirus

I Had the Coronavirus, but I Never Got a Fever

This twentysomething health care worker got sick without the one key symptom everyone says to look for

Garance Franke-Ruta
GEN
Published in
8 min readApr 9, 2020

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A photo illustration of a face mask and thermometer against a background of coronavirus particles.
Photo illustration. Image sources: peng song/Getty Images, 4x-image/Getty Images

Life in the Time of the Coronavirus is a GEN series where we are interviewing people across the country who have had their lives upended

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Garance Franke-Ruta
GEN
Writer for

Executive Editor, GEN by Medium. Previously: Yahoo News, The Atlantic, The Washington Post. garance-at-medium-dot-com.