ESPN NBA analyst Doris Burke is recovering and feeling well after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier this month. Burke explained her experience during an appearance on The Woj Pod with Adrian Wojnarowski.
Burke said she noticed her first symptoms on March 11th, hours before a Nuggets-Mavericks game that she called. Burke said that she felt incredibly tired, and that her head was pounding, but that she felt better after having an aspirin. She called the game, and the next day experienced another headache and still felt fatigued.
“By the time Saturday the 14th hit Adrian, I was so tired that I… if I tried to get out of bed from Saturday, the 14th, through Tuesday, March 17th, St. Patrick’s Day, I kid you not I could not be out of bed for more than five minutes without needing to go back to bed and lay down.”
Burke said she went to a hospital in Philadelphia to get tested, and finally got the results eight days later. Burke says she’s now feeling well. She called everyone she had come in contact with during her travels to alert them of her status, and said she felt “heartsick” over the possibility that she could have exposed other people.
“I cannot begin to express to you the feeling of gratitude I have for health and the concern that I just would want people to know it’s important to social distance, and to continue to function with all good practices of hand washing, wiping down surfaces. Whatever your trusted medical professionals are telling you, please, please follow those.”
