Covid-19: Hamilton mum on sharing battle with virus after initially not seeing danger - a podcast by RNZ

A Hamilton mum, who says she was a Covid-19 denier until she got the virus, is finally back home after ending up in hospital.
Karina Haira shared her fight for life on social media via a series of Facebook "lives" documenting her condition and has received messages of support from across the world.
She told Morning Report her symptoms worsened around the fifth day and that was when she started speaking out.
"My symptoms just went from okay to really really bad. I literally could not get out bed. I kept complaining to my husband 'I can get out of bed, I can't even get up'. I couldn't. I couldn't even stay awake. I just keep sleeping, and my body just ached. I couldn't even move."
She said Covid-19 is not just a flu and as an asthma sufferer the virus just made things worse. 
Haira was not vaccinated when she caught the virus as she was nervous about the possibility of reacting to the shot. She said if she had decided to get vaccinated earlier she would have been as ill.
"I probably would have been a lot better off if I had been vaccinated. I probably wouldn't have been fighting for my life in ICU if I had been vaccinated."
Haira has now returned home and is on the mend. She said her family will have to wait until four weeks after they have left isolation to get vaccinated. She was expecting to leave isolation a week from Tuesday.

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