Distant acquaintance just posted an Instagram story of her husband's COVID19 experience. He is about 35 years old, give or take. From pictures I would say he's maybe 15 pounds overweight, if even that. Apparently he has been with symptoms for going on 18 days, and has not yet fully recovered. He visited several docs and went to the ER twice, due to difficulty breathing. Testing was denied for obscure reasons and it wasn't until the pneumonia diagnosis that they were finally granted a COVID test, despite testing negative for the gamut of strep, flu, etc. He tested positive for covid and his wife was notified only a day or two ago. In normal times, he would definitely be admitted under hospital care, as it's pretty severe.
They live in Round Rock.
He will likely make it into the recovered statistic, eventually. It's simply tenuous at best to look at statistics as a snapshot in time, considering this virus can easily take a full month or more through exposure, incubation, and symptomatic duration. It clearly hits hard, and it hits some for a LONG time.
Substance abuse, from alcohol to smoking of any kind, is 100% ruled out in his case. That I can say with certainty.