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Former NFL tight end Mark Campbell detailed his experience having COVID-19 in a lengthy interview with Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press (h/t USA Today).
"I played 10 years in the NFL, pretty tough, was thinking basically I'm going to grind all this out," he said. "It [expletive] kicked my ass."
Campbell believes he caught the virus pumping gas following a family ski trip and went to a drive-through testing site when his temperature reached 102.6 degrees. He said the site resembled "a scene out of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" with so many police lights and people in protective gear, but he was told he didn't qualify for a test without underlying conditions.