A sore back, a sore body, a couple of days with a high fever.
Fred VanVleet had COVID-19 and it was a short-term nightmare.
“I could feel the sickness, I could just feel it in me,” the veteran Raptors guard said Tuesday night. “I could feel it in my bones, in my muscles, in my blood. It just was something that was taking over my body for a short period of time.”
VanVleet knows he was one of the luckier ones. He got through those debilitating days, those 48 hours where it hurt just to be awake, where everything was just “off.