NYC Minister talks about his bout with Covid-19

Jeff White is a minister and high school classmate of George Mallet's

Live report still ahead corona stinger one of the puzzling things about covi?19 is how differently it impacts individual patients.

Case in point, a friend of mine from high school and college.

The virus resulted in relatively mild symptoms for his wife, but it knocked my buddy flat.

So this is the first day i've felt mildly human since the symptoms first began.

Jeff white lives in new york cit?

Ground zero for this awful virus.

He is the organizing pasoer of new song community church, in harlem.

I've known this preacher man since we we're fresh faced emcees of a high school talent show... yep that's us.

He's never been one to complai?

But he concedes coronavirus put him and his wife, rebecca through the ringer.

Rebecca went through what i would call a fairly gentle version of the thing.

It was about five to seven days where the symptoms were more severe and she got her energy back.

For me, i really got hit hard for like fifteen to sixteen days.

Lost most of my energy, had a headache, fever the whole time, a cough that came and went, respiratory symptoms that were mild not significant.

The couple celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary this week, enabling jeff to look at this drama philosophically .

Yes we did celebrate 35 years.

The good part about that is that we fought through this together and marriage is about fighting through a lot of ups and downs of life together and so it wasn't a bad way to symbolically bring in yet another year before jeff was a minister, he was a physical therapist who graduated from the university of delaware's highl?

Regarded ?t program.

He was also one of the top high school cross country runners in delaware.

He thinks the fact that he has remained fit enabled him to recover from the virus to the extent