A CYSTIC fibrosis sufferer who tested positive for coronavirus has shared a message of hope after beating the disease.<\/p>\n
Daniel James-Lacey McInerney, 21, said he was \"absolutely terrified\" after contracting Covid-19 and feared that he was going to die.<\/p>\n
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But after two weeks of hospital treatment and home quarantine, he has finally beaten the virus.<\/p>\n
He told theDaily Express: \"I know the 'at risk' vulnerable people in the UK are scared of what is going on, but I want to give them some hope.<\/p>\n
\"I have no idea at all how I caught coronavirus, where I caught it or why, but I have faced it and fought it off.<\/p>\n
\"If someone with lungs working at only 25 per cent, weakened by cystic fibrosis can shake off Covid-19 I feel confident many more people can.\"<\/p>\n
I know the 'at risk' vulnerable people in the UK are scared of what is going on, but I want to give them some hope<\/p>\n
Daniel, of Camden, north London, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) when he was just four-years-old.<\/p>\n
He recalled that on March 5, after feeling run-down and chesty, he contacted his CF unit.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old was already self-isolating at home because having CF as an underlying condition put him in one of the \"at risk\" groups.<\/p>\n
On March 9 he got a bed at St Bartholomew's, but on March 10 he woke up with terrible flu symptoms.<\/p>\n
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He was then tested for Covid-19 and given the news that he had contracted the deadly disease.<\/p>\n
Daniel added how he thought he was \"going to die\" during his time in hospital.<\/p>\n
\"In the room next to me in the ICU, I could hear an elderly man in his 70s on a ventilator due to Covid-19 it broke my heart,\" concluded Daniel.<\/p>\n
\"I had survivors' guilt and requested to be moved from the ICU as others worse off than me needed them.\"<\/p>\n
Sections of the hospital were cordoned off as he was taken home in a special ambulance being used in London just for coronavirus patients.<\/p>\n
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