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Dr Clare Gerada describes her experience with coronavirus NewsColony Coronavirus cases in the UK are rapidly climbing, and the spiralling outbreak yesterday prompted Boris Johnson to take the drastic step of advising against all social contact in a desperate measure to delay the spread of infection. But despite these distancing measures, the government estimates many more people will catch the disease which has so far killed 55. As scores of Britons worry about contracting Covid-19, Dr Clare Gerada, 60, a GP in Lambeth, South London, and former chair of the Royal College of GPs who tested positive last week, describes what it’s really like to have coronavirus. Here she describes how rapidly she fell ill…  Just a little out of sorts was how I felt at first. Initially, I thought I probably had a bit of jetlag. Three days previously I had flown back from New York, where I’d been attending a psychiatry conference.  As I left for home, New York declared a state of emer...