PIERS Morgan has revealed his very unusual Covid symptom – 28 days after catching it at the Euros. The double-jabbed presenter was bed-bound for a week – and says the vaccine may have saved his life. Updating his fans on his recovery, Piers said there had been a “spooky” side effect to suffering from the […]
PIERS Morgan has revealed his very unusual Covid symptom – 28 days after catching it at the Euros.
The double-jabbed presenter was bed-bound for a week – and says the vaccine may have saved his life.
Updating his fans on his recovery, Piers said there had been a “spooky” side effect to suffering from the virus.
“28-day Covid update..”, said Piers.
“A new treat – aside from ongoing tedious fatigue & inability to taste wine, all the coughing’s caused a ‘posterior vitreous detachment’ in my left eye.
“I’m now seeing weird ghostly cobwebs swimming around. It really is the virus that keeps on giving.”
A posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) is a condition where your vitreous comes away from the retina at the back of your eye.
PVD can cause sufferers to see floaters, or small dark spots or shapes, and flashing lights.
The ex-Good Morning Britain presenter is convinced he was infected during the chaos at Wembley amid England’s heartbreaking defeat to Italy in the Euro 2020 final on July 11.
And the broadcaster, who has won widespread acclaim for his criticism of the Government’s pandemic policies, said he was struck down with a raging fever, chills and violent coughing fits.
He wrote in the Mail on Sunday that on July 16 he suffered through a “horrible night of high fever, cold sweats, ferocious coughing and sneezing and strange aches all over my body, none of which has been helped by the very hot weather that’s turned my bedroom into a Saharan furnace”.
The following Monday he said he was “hit by a sudden, brutal blast of debilitating fatigue that left me flat-lined in bed all day and feeling as if I’d been run over”.
By July 21 he was “still flat-lined in bed”.
He wrote: “Been a week now and although the fever’s long gone, the fatigue keeps overwhelming me like a soporific tidal wave. I haven’t even read a newspaper since developing symptoms, which for a news junkie like me is unprecedented.”
Piers said the vaccine had saved his life, and his thoughts were with former GMB colleague Kate Garraway’s husband Derek Draper.
Morgan wrote: “Derek is three years younger than me and remains in a virtual coma 15 months after being rushed to hospital at the height of the first wave of the pandemic with a headache and breathing issues.
“Of course, the big and very fortunate difference for me is that vaccines have since been developed and I’m double-jabbed with the Oxford/AstraZeneca one.”
