A healthy marathon runner has described having coronavirus as "being like in a car crash" and said that he "couldn't move".
Mark Stubbs, 28, appeared on Good Morning Britain via video link as he revealed that, despite having strong lungs, he was left coughing up blood and was hospitalised in ICU for 13 days.
Speaking to hosts Piers Morgan and Lorraine Kelly, he said: My fever was up to 40 degrees and slightly higher, which was highly uncomfortable... it's not an exaggeration to say that [it's like being] in a car crash."
He continued: "In three days I was unable to breathe, lungs taken over, coughing up blood."
Mark continued to say that people don't realise that you can be really healthy and still get coronavirus.
"You may survive and get through it but that old person who doesn't get that ventilator won't," he warned.
He said that he was now recovering but was still breathless, sleeping a lot and conceded that his liver had "taken a bit of a battering".
Dr Hilary also addressed his comments, admitting that what Mark had said was "extremely worrying".
"You're a marathon runner [and have] strong lungs... but you couldn't breathe on your own," he said. "What you're telling the nation is so important for those idiots who were going out in mass gatherings."
This comes after Piers demanded the man that filmed himself licking supermarket shelves a products is refused health care if he contracts coronavirus.
Good Morning Britain presenter Piers, 54, seethed with rage on the ITV programme after the clip of the American was shown.
The man is seen leaning over towards the supermarket shelves and running his tongue along the procts.
He fumed: "You know what I'd like to happen to him? I'd like him found, and I'm sure they'll get him, put in prison immediately and then I'd like him deprived of any health care should he then get the virus having deliberately try to give it, potentially, to lots of other people.
"That might concentrate the minds of these morons. And it might concentrate the minds of these morons here too."
Earlier on, Piers shared a chilling image on his Instagram to warn that family relatives will die amid the coronavirus pandemic as he unleashed his fury at some of the public's "idiocy" for treating yesterday like a public holiday.
Shocking pictures at the weekend showed hoards of people collecting at parks and beaches despite the social distancing warnings.
Piers also hit out at those bunched up in lines for supermarkets, potentially spreading COVID-19, branding them morons.
He raged: "The utter crass stupidity of people, the ignorance."
Piers also shared a picture on his Instagram of two people separated by a dead body lying on the floor.
The stark image warned: "Confused about how far to distance yourself? Imagine the outline of a dead relative between you."
He captioned it: "Memo to all morons..."
Fans flocked to the comments, with one remarking: "The problem is all these fools on facebook saying its only a flu, they show statistics of how people die each year from other diseases."
While another commented: "So well put. Living in Germany in our supermarket there is a plastic shield to protect the assistants and tape marking on the floor to distance shoppers."
A third remarked: "I've been self isolated for 2 weeks tomorrow now thanks to my family and friends as help me through, this notice should be put up as add in popular tv shows and a cross social media."
Another wrote: "Please listen to Piers!!! he's not always right NO!!! but believe me the guy is damn Right just now.... Harsh yes needs to be said...."
*Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV
