BERMAN: Doctors and nurses treating critically sick patients with coronavirus are too often getting infected themselves. 14 days ago, Intensive Care Doctor Julie John felt the first symptoms of what would turned out to be coronavirus. And Dr. Julie John joins us now. Dr. John, great to see you with us this morning. Thanks so much for being here. You have said that your body thinks it's a 90-year-old woman with emphysema. How are you feeling this morning?</s>DR. JULIE JOHN, INTENSIVE CARE DOCTOR WITH CORONAVIRUS: I have been sleeping in days since my diagnosis. So today is day 14. I can walk up to three minutes and my saturation will go from 99 to 88 to 90. So it's much better than the 80 percent. It was a few days ago. I'm not where I'm supposed to be, the</s>BERMAN: It's got to be frustrating. I'm sure you would like to get better more quickly. Now, when you first suspected that you might have COVID-19 14 days ago, you were reluctant to call 911 because you didn't want your children to see the paramedics. Talk to me about that.</s>JOHN: I had a lot of difficulty breathing -- sorry. I had a lot of difficulty breathing and my daughter was sleeping nearby. My six-year- old son was nearby. And I couldn't catch my breath because I was drowning in my lungs and I was breathing faster and I checked my home pulse socks (ph), and it was down to almost 85. And I knew if I called 911, what EMT would want to do to somebody like me who was working this hard to breathe. So I got down on my knees and I put my forehead to the ground and I prayed to God, I prayed Psalm 91, I prayed to be under his wing and to heal me and to give me time and to let me live because I was so scared of them seeing me leaving my house intubated and like one of my patients. And I just -- And that's what I did. I prayed. END
Intensive Care Doctor On Her Fight With Coronavirus.