Man battling coronavirus speaks out: ‘I ain’t never felt this bad’ – Yahoo News

A man in Rome, Georgia, said he was initially sent home after he went to the hospital with flu-like symptoms and later tested positive for coronavirus.Clay Bentley told ABC News on Wednesday that on March 1 he sang in the more-than-100-member choir at the Church at Liberty Square in Cartersville, Georgia.MORE: Coronavirus live updates: World Health Organization declares coronavirus outbreak a ‘pandemic’Bentley said he went home after church and woke up Monday morning, feeling so sick he went to urgent care in Rome, Georgia. When they checked his vitals, he said, his oxygen levels were really low and he was sent to a hospital.MORE: Coronavirus testing on the rise in US, but experts say it’s not enoughBentley told ABC News his wife had not been tested for coronavirus but that she was being quarantined at home for two weeks. He said she was told to go home because she wasn’t displaying symptoms.”I’ve been around her the whole week,” he said. “They have not tested her, and I don’t understand.”Although Bentley said doctors were giving him breathing treatments and antibiotics, he expressed frustration over the hospital sending him home when he first came in.Man battling coronavirus speaks out: ‘I ain’t never felt this bad’ originally appeared on abcnews.go.com