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Two people I know had very bad flu symptoms with horrible coughs. They didn't get 100% better until they were giving a course of steroids in addition to anti-biotics. It's very possible that had the COVID19. Both complained of chest pain and difficulty catching their breath. It didn't help that neither one of them took more than a day to stay home from work and get better. It took several weeks to a month and a half for each of them to recover.
"The Atlantic" is not a scientific journal. Of all the mass-media that run articles like this, IMO, they're among the worst for just not getting it. The authors are "specialists" in climate change.
So you think we're testing enough people? You think all the doctors on the front lines are just lying about not having enough tests?
Iceland tested a random 1,800 people with no symptoms and 1% were positive.
1% of the population of NYC is 86,000.
Just watch. I wish there was a "remind me" button on here.
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I am convinced millions have this in the US.
A village in Italy did something similar. They tested all 3,000 people living there regardless of symptoms and their quick study said 50-75% of the people who tested positive were asymptomatic, they didn't mention how many out of the 3,000 tested positive though.
Now of course a certain % of these 50-75% could also just have been pre-symptomatic and might eventually have developed some of the symptoms as their infection progressed.
I had a bad bug at the end of January. I even passed out I was so sick. I didn't think it could be Covid because I didn't have respiratory problems. But now I heard not everyone has that. I could have had it and not known it. I had traveled to Boston where there was an early outbreak.
I am in Boston and I thought I had it over new years week (into the first week of January) . I had a 103 fever, cough and respiratory issues that were serious enough for the doctor to order a chest X-ray and give me an asthma inhaler but wasn't serious enough to bother me that bad.
I do think I had it. Currently I am suffering issues with my health that are consistent with after effects of viruses like SARS, low WBC, liver enzymes elevated.
I am not prone to colds or the flu. My last serious cold was in 2014.
More misinformation. Your area is listed as New York, and they are only testing people with symptoms. Nearly 17,000 people have tested positive, meaning they have symptoms caused by the virus. That's a lot more than "few".
They were also testing asymptomatic people who had been exposed.
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Your suspicion about how many have actually been exposed means nothing. Pandemics or any illnesses are not managed based on the suspicions of random uninformed people.
I don't trade personal jibes. I happen to think that as testing spreads to people with more remote exposure we're getting a lot of meaningless positives.
My local paper does not link well. I distinctly remember reading the fact that most of Victim O's synagogue was tested after he went to the hospital and wound up in critical condition. He has thankfully since recovered. But the testing wound up shutting my synagogue down since one of the people who tested positive was a part-time tutor of Bar Mitzvah children.
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