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Treating COVID symptoms at home Treating COVID symptoms at home By Chasity Maxie | January 20, 2021 at 6:19 PM CST - Updated January 20 at 8:00 PM BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - Getting a positive COVID-19 test can be a scary moment, and with emergency rooms packed and COVID units at some area hospitals at capacity, many people are treating symptoms at home. Local doctors are getting frantic calls daily from patients diagnosed with COVID-19 wondering what they should do when they start feeling sick. Doctors said if you experience loss of taste or smell, fevers, chills and aches, one of the be...

8/19, he started to feel more like fever, chills, a little bit of nauz yarks not being able to sleep. he thought he was just getting a flu. by that friday he reached out to us and said i think i need to go to the doctor. he's not a kid that likes the doctor. he doesn't like to bother us as parents and he'll usually try to work it out himself. at that point we knew he's not feeling well. he brought himself in the urgent care. they did some basic tests and thought maybe it would be viral and sent him home saying drink fluids, take some tylenol and ibuprofen and get some rest. over the course of ...

Different debates. on the nine side people wonder about lotion versus spray. spray you may not cover as much so maybe the location is better. then you get into vitamin d deficiencies. vitamin d, you need that to make your bones strong and also if you have low vitamin d, which most of us do you can get more muscle aches and pains. sun block blocks production to some degree so there's a controversy about that but the american academy of dermatology says that it is actually better to wear the sunscreen and maybe take supplements if you need them. >> lotion over spray. >> probably but it's not tot...

Outside of the hospitals. but the hospitals have to take precautions. you as a person have to take precautions. you know, ask for the shortest dose of antibiotics. now a days we can treat urinary tract infections for three to five days, not seven days anymore. and don't, finish all your pills. don't take family members pills. when you have a cold or flu, tough it out. if you have it beyond a up can of weeks, then you might have a secondary super infection with bacteria and need antibiotics. jenna: that's a good tip. >> if you're sick for a couple days, tough it out. stay home, rest, drink flui...

People. yesterday, 18 deaths were reported in just one state, massachusetts. boston's mayor declared a public health emergency and according to the cdc 41 states are now reporting widespread flu activity and since october, more than 2,200 people hospitalized because of the flu. nbc's kevin tibbles in milwaukee with a look at how one hospital is coping. >> reporter: tamron, here at the st. fran rice hospital in milwaukee, like other hospitals in this city, they're practicing something they called diversion whereby there are so many flu patients flooding the emergency rooms, they're diverting am...