The coronavirus has proven itself to be extremely infectious, with people from all walks of life, celebrity or not, catching the disease. CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin is someone who tested positive for the virus and is now sharing her experience.

In a personal essay published by CNN, Baldwin says she went to some pretty dark places, battling feelings of isolation and dread during the two weeks she spent battling COVID-19.

Before testing positive for COVID-19, Baldwin was covering news about the pandemic for the news channel, interviewing former Vice President Joe Biden and a nurse at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital.

But by Apr. 3, as Newsweek notes, Baldwin had already announced on Instagram that she had tested positive for the disease. What happened then was a “two-week beating” to Baldwin’s body.

Baldwin says she would spend 45 minutes to an hour soaking in a tub of hot water just to ease the pain she was feeling, and this was even after taking two extra-strength Tylenol. Like Tom Hank’s wife Rita Wilson, Baldwin also lost her sense of taste and smell, noting that she kept smelling the odor of jewelry cleaner before those senses were lost.

The coronavirus often left her exhausted, making her spend 10 to 12 hours asleep. She also experienced gland swelling under her jaw. The experience got to be so bad that her husband had to hold her in his arms, despite how easily the coronavirus could have infected him.

Now that she has recovered, Baldwin said that her husband has not displayed any symptoms, although she is hoping that her husband will get one of those antibody tests soon.

Aside from Baldwin, several personalities have tested positive for the coronavirus. These include fellow CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, “Good Morning America” host George Stephanopoulos, television host Andy Cohen, actors Ali Wentworth, Olga Kurylenko, Kristofer Hivju, and Idris Elba, singer Marianne Faithfull, and reality star Todd Chrisley.

Not only has the coronavirus spread among celebrities, but it has also caused the deaths of a number of them, such as 

has also caused the deaths of celebrities such as singer-songwriters John Prine and Adam Schlesinger, stage star Mark Blum, actor and dialect coach Andrew Jack, celebrity chef Floyd Cardoz, and British comedians Eddie Large and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

It does not look like COVID-19 will slow down anytime soon as infections continue to increase worldwide. The World Health Organization, in its situation report for Apr. 20, says that there are now 2,314,621 people worldwide who have tested positive for COVID-19. Fatalities caused by COVID-19 around the world now total to 157,847 people.

Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that as of Apr. 20. the United States has 746,625 confirmed coronavirus cases, with deaths at 39,083 people.