The ripples of COVID-19 are still felt for Kitsap County s first couple to test positive
David Kroman
When Marnie Malpass was hospitalized for COVID-19 last March, she started having hallucinations while confined in her negative pressure room. In her head, she could manipulate the constant roar of fans there to clear the room of the virus as if she were changing the dial on a radio, turning to the station of her choosing, listening to her favorite songs.
Now, nearly 10 months later, long after she tested negative for the virus, the sound of a hairdryer or a vacuum cleaner sends Marnie back to that room. Even as she struggles to remember large portions of her hospitalization through the haze of her illness, something about the dull hum sets her to adjusting the dials in her head.
Symptoms and struggles persist for WA couple, 10 months after COVID
As one of the earliest infections in the country, the Malpass family still faces the unknown impacts of the coronavirus.
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Updated Dec. 30 at 12:25 p.m.
When Marnie Malpass was hospitalized for COVID-19 last March, she started having hallucinations while confined in her negative pressure room. In her head, she could manipulate the constant roar of fans there to clear the room of the virus as if she were changing the dial on a radio, turning to the station of her choosing, listening to her favorite songs.
Now, nearly 10 months later, long after she tested negative for the virus, the sound of a hair dryer or a vacuum cleaner sends Marnie back to that room. Even as she struggles to remember large portions of her hospitalization through the haze of her illness, something about the dull hum sets her to adjusting the dials in her head.
Top stories of 2020 in Washington state
In the longest, shortest year in most of our lives, a lot happened. Recap the year with us and look ahead to 2021.
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2020 had no shortage of news events, from a global pandemic and an election year to another reckoning with systemic racism and wildfires across the West. (Clockwise from top left: Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut; Dan DeLong/InvestigateWest; Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut; Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
The word of the year has to be “unprecedented.” It’s maddening, overused and, unfortunately, true. Time feels simultaneously frozen and moving at least a million miles an hour. As a result, it can be difficult to remember what the heck happened these past 12 months between our bouts of reading