A couple and three of their children were sickened; 'It affected everybody differently'
When Chula Vista resident Erik Hoyo, 40, came down with a fever on March 25, he wrote it off as the flu. Then his wife got sick. Then three of their four children and Hoyo’s mother-in-law.
The other members of his household were assumed to have been infected with the virus, he said. No one else in his household was tested, so only his case was confirmed.Public health officials had not determined how he contracted the virus, Hoyo said. He suspected he was infected at the auto dealership where he works as a finance manager because people had been coughing, customers with foreign passports had been coming in to buy vehicles and no other members of Hoyo’s family had been leaving home.
“My wife started getting sick a couple of days after me, but hers just hit her like a ton of bricks,” Hoyo said. “It was scary because I didn’t know what to do. We had to isolate her, but then the kids, everybody got sick. I was using most of my energy doing everything around the house.” About that same time, Erik Hoyo started noticing other symptoms typical of COVID-19, including dulled senses of smell and taste and loss of appetite. He started having trouble breathing a few days after he took his wife to the emergency room.For six days, Hoyo had no appetite and did not eat, he said. He said he lost about 15 pounds.
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