California man reveals he had Covid & monkeypox at the SAME TIME with symptoms leaving him in bed over ‘weeks of misery’

A CALIFORNIAN man has revealed he had Covid and monkeypox at the same time - and his symptoms left him in bed during "weeks of misery."

Mitcho Thompson, of Northern California, recently tested positive for Covid-19 and monkeypox at the same time, according to NBC Bay Area.

The Sebastopol man said he started noticing red wounds across his body shortly after testing positive for Covid.

He spoke with NBC Bay Area earlier this week, explaining how he discovered lesions on his body on his legs, arms, back, and neck - and that was when he realized he might have monkeypox.

"The doctor was very certain that I have monkeypox and that I had both," he told the news outlet.

"That was the question. Could I get them at the same time? And he said, ‘Yes, yes, yes.'"

Thompson noted that he felt "really sick" and recounted the "worst of it" was when he could "barely" get out of bed or a drink of water.

He referred to the time frame he was sick as "weeks of misery" because it felt like he had a really bad flu.

However, Thompson was feeling much better at the time of the interview with NBC Bay Area.

Dr Dean Winslow, a Stanford University professor of medicine who also spoke with the news outlet, said getting Covid at the same time as monkeypox is very rare but possible.

The infectious diseases specialist said: "It's certainly not impossible for that to occur.

"It's just incredibly bad luck. They are very different viruses."

Most monkeypox cases that Winslow has come across were spread through skin-to-skin contact, he told the news outlet, noting that Covid is transmitted more easily.

The news comes as monkeypox cases continue to rise in the US with new infections detected, data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows.