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I think my kids and I did along with some close friends. We were doing a bunch of traveling and committments. I think that is one of the only reasons why we have not been down with it since it became a thing.
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Originally Posted by greywar
The loss of smell/taste is one of the symptoms that we dont see in tons of other things, so its certainly possible.
I do lose my smell and taste when I get a severe sinus infection. Always have. I usually had to have my husband or son try food to make sure it was seasoned well.
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Originally Posted by Doncicmavsfan
I know a guy that’s been a PA for 25 years...somehow he swears he saw people with Covid several months before it was a thing in the US.
Yes. I've heard this from friends especially from some in the medical community.
Study of blood samples from Red Cross blood donors has found evidence that there may have been infections on the west coast as early as mid December and possibly in January in the Northeast. It was not able to determine whether any cases were travel related.
To those who think they might have had it, where were you when you think you caught it (up to two weeks before you developed symptoms)? Had you traveled outside the country or associated with someone who did?
Study of blood samples from Red Cross blood donors has found evidence that there may have been infections on the west coast as early as mid December and possibly in January in the Northeast. It was not able to determine whether any cases were travel related.
To those who think they might have had it, where were you when you think you caught it (up to two weeks before you developed symptoms)? Had you traveled outside the country or associated with someone who did?
Some of you have given some of that info, I know.
I lived on the west coast during that time. Any travel that we did prior to that time was within the US which concluded in October, but still had events and were around people from other countries the next couple of months afterwards. The end of January, I found out that I would have to travel to my hometown for some business mid February I had a cold I just could not shake. My kids had the same symptoms prior to that.
I was down with something at the end of January 2020 for about a week. I had a Flu shot but that doesn't mean it wasn't the Flu.
I had breathing issues, body aches, and chills. I don't recall losing my sense of smell/taste BUT I didn't eat anything for the whole week so I'm not sure. It took about another two weeks to feel 100%.
Might have been covid, might not have. I did get the covid vaccine and had no side effects which many people who have had covid report so maybe it wasn't covid.
Everyone in the office I worked in at the time was sick from September 2019 on and off through the beginning of the pandemic including me. With sore throat, cough, fatigue and weird symptoms. One guy was coughing for a month straight badly and he was saying the doctors could not figure out why. One lady was hacking around February of 2020 and asked her doctor about Covid. She was dismissed because she wasn’t running a fever.
I’m convinced Covid was around as early as summer 2019.
Everyone in the office I worked in at the time was sick from September 2019 on and off through the beginning of the pandemic including me. With sore throat, cough, fatigue and weird symptoms. One guy was coughing for a month straight badly and he was saying the doctors could not figure out why. One lady was hacking around February of 2020 and asked her doctor about Covid. She was dismissed because she wasn’t running a fever.
I’m convinced Covid was around as early as summer 2019.
No evidence yet for a date as early as September 2019, and there are other things that can cause the symptoms you describe.
There was a really nasty respiratory crud going around Metro Detroit in November-December 2019. My step dad had it around Thanksgiving and it took him well over a month to recover and to this day he still gets shortness of breath from time to time. One of my co-workers got something similar around Christmas- hers was so bad she had to get breathing treatments from the doctor.
I don't recall some of the other COVID symptoms (fever, loss of taste and smell) being present, but just a few months later the Detroit area was one of the original epicenters so who knows.
We were living near the epicenter of the outbreak in the USA and I thought I might have had it earlier. I still went ahead with the vaccines....if I had a confirmed case of covid, I probably would have passed on getting the vaccine.
20 years ago, half of Ft. Lauderdale was sick with upper respiratory infections; including me.
We all thought we had SARS back then, none of us will ever know.
Covid strains were first discovered back in the 1960's I believe, the probabilities many have had different strains other than 19 is fairly high.
The problem I see is the situation being taken advantage of both personally(freedoms restricted), and economically(mass transfer of wealth).
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