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Vivek Kaliraman, who lives in Los Angeles, has celebrated every Christmas since 2002 with his best friend, who lives in Houston. But, this year, instead of boarding an airplane, which felt too risky during the COVID pandemic, he took a car and plans to stay with his friend for several weeks.
The trip a 24-hour drive was too much for one day, though, so Kaliraman called seven hotels in Las Cruces, New Mexico which is about halfway to ask how many rooms they were filling and what their cleaning and food-delivery protocols were.
“I would call at nighttime and talk to one front desk person and then call again at daytime,” said Kaliraman, 51, a digital health entrepreneur. “I would make sure the two different front desk people I talked to gave the same answer.”
Bluish lips or face
In the case of having bluish lips with COVID-19, “most people have other symptoms,” says John Sellick, D.O., an infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo/SUNY in New York. “Usually, they’ll also be short of breath or huffing and puffing.”
However, “there have been people who, for whatever reason, don’t have other symptoms” beyond having bluish lips, says infectious disease expert Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. While this is incredibly rare, they’re referred to as “happy hypoxics,” he explains. They “don’t have any other symptoms but have remarkably low oxygen levels.”
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