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(Milliyet Newspaper, 3 April 2020)
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about Turks and Covid-19 abroad.
Living the American Scream.
The Covid-19 pandemic is negatively affecting Turks living abroad.
Arzu Ertaş (56) and her husband İsmet Ertaş (60), who live in New
York, have come down with coronavirus.
Arzu hanım experienced severe headaches on 7 March and her
temperature surged to 39.5 degrees (103.1 F). The next day her
husband İsmet bey had the same symptoms, putting them both in
panic-mode as they lay helpless in bed.
The Ertaş couple, who sell kitchenware in New York, couldn't even
get themselves to a hospital nor could they seek help from friends
and risk infecting them. Nevertheless, Turkish friends the couple
reached by phone delivered food and medicines to them during a
very uncomfortable week at home.
Singing projects even more of the virus into the air, they say...
Arzu hanım explained to Milliyet that "We went to Zülfü Livaneli's
(a Turkish singer-writer) book-signing (4 March) and about 15 people
who were there got Covid-19, including a famous journalist (Zafer
Mutlu). My first symptoms emerged on 7 March and my husband's
the next day. Our friends brought what we needed to our doorstep and
our doctor directed us to a local clinic. When we went there, though,
we were surprised to learn that they couldn't test us for Covid-19 and
tested us for influenza instead."
"We were both 'negative' for influenza but gave the doctor there a
piece of our mind, telling him about the book-signing and the others
who attended and who got Covid-19. So the clinic finally tested us
for Covid-19 and we were told to go home and stay there. If our
temperatures exceeded 39 degrees we were told to go back to the
clinic."
"The results for the Covid-19 tests we took on 13 March came back
'positive' on 20 March, by which time we had completed two weeks
of quarantine. We still had coughs and lethargy, but nothing else.
But when we called the American doctor at the clinic he told us we
had to stay in quarantine for another 2 weeks, until 7 April. He
wrote prescriptions for pain-killers and fever-reducers and sent us
home wishing us 'Godspeed'!"
(Don't) Think Positive!
"Those who really helped us were our personal doctor and our friends.
We weren't put under observation nor did we get the necessary interest
(from the clinic). If we weren't strong, healthy people we probably
wouldn't be talking to you (Milliyet) right now. Many people in New
York haven't had Covid-19 tests done and it's hard to find the test kits,
in any event."
"Up until a week ago, Americans were behaving as if 'nothing can
happen to me' and roaming around spreading the illness. In the U.S.
tests and treatment are free but there aren't enough tests or health
personnel. Other than Germany, the whole of the West is being
battered by the pandemic."
"Round up the usual suspects."
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