Have you had the flu? Could it have been Covid? (sinus, cold)
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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 was really ill the end of year...with what I thought was a sinus cold and a very bad cough. My doctor said what I had was like bronchitis...which I've never had in my life....and I'm 72. Activated my asthma, too, with bad wheezing. Doc gave me prednisone for the cough and an inhaler similar to albuterol...which I did not use because I don't like Rx meds. Controlled cough with menthol cough drops, which did help a lot. Cough and breathing problems/wheezing went away within a month. My breathing is as good as it's ever been. My doctor told me she had to use prednisone and an inhaler too because her cough was so bad...said it took 3 months to completely go away. I live in Colorado and don't believe COVID was in Colorado when I was ill. That doesn't mean anything b/c they say that many more people are infected or ill, and do to know it, and/or have no symptoms. No one I work with caught my cold because I do practice infection control - keeping everything I touch wiped down, when I'm ill. Wondering if I did have COVID, because this sinus cold was worse than any I've had...and I did feel really ill for 2 weeks.
Idle speculation and pretty pointless IMHO. Chances are, if you actually did contract a coronavirus it's mutated quite a bit from that form by now anyway. Happens quite fast apparently. Even if your immune system did learn to recognize and respond to a coronavirus back then it might not have effective antibodies now. Don't forget secondary bacterial infections that can get started after some virus runs its course. They create respiratory illnesses too. But, if you want to waste your time wondering, knock yourself out.
M -- people are putting more together now and thinking they may have had a CV with their issues. You mention asthma, and the antioxidants help reduce asthma conditions. I've mentioned that in Alt Med over the years.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged in China in late November or early December 2019. Whatever anyone had earlier than that was not COVID-19, no matter how sick you were, and if you had no history of contact with anyone from China in January, odds are you did not have COVID-19.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus emerged in China in late November or early December 2019. Whatever anyone had earlier than that was not COVID-19, no matter how sick you were, and if you had no history of contact with anyone from China in January, odds are you did not have COVID-19.
"The estimated dates for the most recent common ancestor (and the 95% credible interval) are compatible with the TMRCA from the beginning to middle of December (Table 2). The earliest reported date of symptom onset for the initial cluster of pneumonia cases was 1st December 2019 [4]."
My family traveled from California to Oklahoma during Christmas week, and about halfway through the week I came down with a cold. It really was quite mild. Right after we got home, my husband came down with it, and his case was more severe than mine. He developed a bad cough that lingered for a couple of weeks.
I would say this was just a cold, it certainly seemed like it, but the strange thing was that our three children (ages 15, 17, 20) who traveled with us and shared close quarters during the entire week, never got sick at all. Normally, they're the ones who get the colds, while my husband and I usually escape. I think it is highly unlikely that we had COVID-19, but the way it hit me and my husband and skipped our kids was certainly strange.
In late February my mother-in-law got a bad cold that turned into bacterial pneumonia. She felt really terrible for about a week, needed antibiotics, had a very lingering cough, and is only now about back to normal. She had had a visit from a relative in Germany who gave her this illness, so, long story short, she was tested and DID NOT have coronavirus.
The serological test is advantageous because it can detect antibodies even if a patient has recovered
China and Singapore have serological (antibody) tests, so eventually it will be possible to get tested to confirm if you've already had it.
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Originally Posted by mascoma
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.
The first confirmed appearance of COVID-19 in Massachusetts was February 1st (a traveler returning from Wuhan, China). After that, no confirmed community transmission until early March.
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The serological test is advantageous because it can detect antibodies even if a patient has recovered
