Jeremy Clarkson has described his “terrifying” experience fighting coronavirus over Christmas.
The Grand Tour guest, 60, does not yet know if he has completely recovered.
He wrote in his column for The Sunday Times: “Four days before Christmas, I woke up overnight realizing that my sheets were soft. And I had whooping cough. ”
After his test came back positive, “the doctor was very clear – I would feel under the weather for between five and 14 days and then I would get better or I would have gone to hospital.
“Because I’m 60 and obese, and have smoked half a million cigarettes and had double pneumonia, I may die, alone, in a lone plastic tent.”
Who wants to be a millionaire? The guest wrote: “I also had to self-divide. … I took myself to bed with the new Don Winslow book and a bag of cabbage waiting for the Grim Reaper to wrap its head around the door.
“I’m not going to lie down – it was scary.
“With all my illnesses, there was always a realization that there would be healing and time cycling to the rescue.
“But with Covid-19 you have to lie there, on your own, realizing that medicine is not on its way and that enemy is your worst enemy. ”
Although he didn’t “feel too bad” at first, Clarkson ‘s breath started to get a lab, and the doctor’ s warning was always ringing in my head about how he could grow. -obann ”.
He said: “We are told that we know a lot about Covid, but what I have learned over the last 10 days is that we are not.
“We do not know how long we have been infectious. We don’t know how to deal with it. We don’t know what it will do for us.
“We don’t know how long the antibodies last. We don’t know how easy it is to catch it twice. And of course we don’t know if any of the vaccines will work in the long run. I don’t know if I’m better now. “
He also criticized the BBC’s coverage of the pandemic, calling it “doom, with added gloom”.