Indiana’s state health commissioner says her experience with COVID-19 demonstrates how big of a difference the proper precautions can make. Dr. Kris Box, who’s currently quarantined after testing positive, gave an update by phone during state officials’ COVID-19 press conference Wednesday.
“I just want to say for those individuals who have said that my illness is a perfect example of why masking and social distancing doesn’t work, I really need you to think again, because the only way I got infected was when I let my guard down, which I have done since the beginning of this pandemic, in my social bubble, which is my family. And that’s when I got infected,” Box said.
She stressed that the number of close contacts at the state, due to the precautions being taken. Box said she’s had mild symptoms, including fatigue, cough, and runny nose.
But not everyone has been that lucky, and even a few younger people are experiencing complications. Indiana Department of Health Chief Medial Officer Dr. Lindsay Weaver said the state has now had 19 cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, and health officials have now discovered that it can also happen in young adults. “They can have that same syndrome where they’ll be infected, maybe have very minor symptoms or no symptoms at all and then several weeks later, they get cardiac problems, they have to be hospitalized, different organs shut down,” Weaver said. “It’s very serious.”
Governor Holcomb stressed that wearing a mask not only protects yourself, but also those around you.
