2020年3月24日，哈佛大學校長Larry Bacow在一封電郵中通知學校，他和夫人Adele Fleet Bacow均確認被感染新冠病毒COVID-19。在此之前一週多，他們就已經在家工作，而且很少與外界接觸，但是他們出現了新冠症狀。
2020年4月6日，《哈佛公報》（Harvard Gazette）發佈了校長夫婦康復的消息，校長還分享了他們自愈的一些經歷。
很幸運 只是輕症
We were very fortunate. We never experienced any of the respiratory problems that sent so many people to the hospital. For us, this felt a lot like the flu. Not fun, but certainly not life-threatening, at least in our case.
他們沒有經歷過任何那些被送往醫院的病人的那些呼吸問題。他們感覺就是流感，雖然不好玩，但是沒有生命威脅。
We both started off with a cough and then that progressed to having a fever and chills. I also had whole-body muscle aches. Everything hurt. I felt like I was 120 years old almost overnight. And then lethargy — just how you feel when you have the flu.
校長夫婦最初只是咳嗽，然後演變成發燒和發冷。他還有過渾身肌肉疼痛，什麼都痛，感覺一夜之間自己變成了120歲。昏昏欲睡，就跟流感一樣。
當得知自己被感染時是什麼感覺？
Well, we’d been very, very careful, and I was a little bit surprised, in truth, because Adele and I had not seen anyone except each other for close to 10 days before we started experiencing symptoms. We were completely isolated in the house. One reason we had taken such precautions is because I live with an autoimmune condition that makes me very susceptible to any kind of infection. In fact, some people questioned why I actually got tested. It’s because I’m immunosuppressed. So I was at risk. And when we tested positive I thought, “This is going to be interesting.”
很意外！校長夫婦在出現症狀之前的十來天根本沒有見過任何人，而且他們非常非常小心。他們呆在家裡，與外界是完全隔絕的。
他們之所以如此警惕是因為校長有自身免疫的問題，這讓他對任何感染都很容易受到傳染。
有人質疑他為啥得到檢測（原則上是要有症狀的人才可以去檢測），就是因為他的免疫抑制的問題，他處於風險之中。當他們被確認陽性時，校長想這會變得很有趣。
怎麼度過隔離期的？有觀看或閱讀什麼特別的東西嗎？
It’s a struggle just to keep up on email. I haven’t really had a chance to read anything for pleasure. In the irony department, our son and daughter-in-law and two granddaughters called us up a few weeks ago. They live in New York City. They were working remotely and wanted to know how we would feel if they came up and lived with us during this experience. We said, “Of course, we’d love to see you.” Well, they literally drove up here the day the two of us came down with our first symptoms. They have been in the house and we’ve been FaceTiming them and engaging in social distancing. The big distraction is having our 2½-year-old granddaughter and our now 8-week-old granddaughter with us. We hope as we emerge from the other side of this in a few days that we’ll actually be able to play with them. That will be our distraction.
整天盯著電子郵件是很掙扎的。校長實際上沒有任何機會因為消遣而讀過什麼。他們的兒子、兒媳以及兩個孫女居住在紐約，兒子和兒媳是遠程辦公的，因此在他們出現症狀時一家一起來陪伴他們。
他們在家裡通過視頻交流，保持社交距離。他們的孫女分別是兩歲半和八週，幫助他們分散了很大的注意力。校長希望他們現在恢復了，將可以真正地能夠陪她們玩。這幫助他們分散注意力。換言之，人在生病時，家人的陪伴是很重要的。
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