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originally posted by: HawkeyeNation
It's really hard to say because wouldn't most of us recall losing the senses like smell or taste? Those seem to be the most common with Covid. And I say this knowing that I was really sick for 2 weeks around that time. To the point that after a week I had to go in and see a doctor because it just was not getting better. I have never in my life gone to a doctor for sickness like that (I'm 42). He said that they were seeing a lot of this and that it was just viral and in time would run it's course.
originally posted by: igloo
originally posted by: HawkeyeNation
It's really hard to say because wouldn't most of us recall losing the senses like smell or taste? Those seem to be the most common with Covid. And I say this knowing that I was really sick for 2 weeks around that time. To the point that after a week I had to go in and see a doctor because it just was not getting better. I have never in my life gone to a doctor for sickness like that (I'm 42). He said that they were seeing a lot of this and that it was just viral and in time would run it's course.
I had something around the same age but in 2008 that came with a high fever and took away my hearing for weeks, sense of taste/smell for a few months with some permanent damage. Couldn't have been covid that long ago so these are not symptoms unique to covid but maybe many respiratory viruses can cause loss of senses too if you get a bad case.
While loss of senses is common with covid if most cases are undetected by the person, or mimic a mild flu, they won't necessarily experience this.
People around me also got a memorable "flu" december 2019. I remember thinking that I probably had had it when news came out in march 2020.
Happened in the UK too. I live near a university in Wales that has visiting students from Wuhan in December. A wave of weird respiratory illnesses swept through Ceredigion. We caught it around New Years Eve. Many people were struck down with serious chest and breathing problems. My wife and a friend who was visiting took months to recover. I was ill for about a week. My wife’s medical records are even flagged with a note that she might have been an early Covid sufferer.
originally posted by: MPoling
The Wuhan Military Games, October 2019. Over 9000 athletes from 100 countries were there. Soon after the games ended reports of athletes being sick from a mystery illness started to spread. David Asher admits there was data showing COVID in the US as early as December 2019.
The sad part is this informant called the US to warn them and was ignored. Appears the CCP used the games to spread COVID to the world. I lived in CO at the time with my wife and kid. We all became very ill around mid November 2019. We got tested for the flu and strep and both came back negative. My job said at the time they had never seen so many employees get sick at once. We were down for about 3-4 days. This explains a lot. Everyday we learn more and more.
www.news.com.au/world
The 2019-2020 flu season is up and running—and so far, it's off to a weird start.
Flu activity has been elevated since the start of November and is only expected to continue climbing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports in its latest flu update. That's a few weeks earlier than in past years.....
Latest data
According to the latest surveillance data from US surveillance programs, around 60 to 70 percent of the flu viruses analyzed from patients this flu season have been type B viruses. Of those, about 97 percent tested were in the B/Victoria lineage. Over the last few weeks, the proportion of B/Victoria strains among the flu-positive cases has been increasing.
It's unclear why B/Victoria is surging or what that surge means for the rest of the flu season. CDC spokesperson Scott Pauley told Ars over email that flu is difficult to predict and that it's simply "too early to make any kind of assessment about the potential severity of the season."
Since December 2019, a total of 41 cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology have been confirmed in Wuhan city, Hubei Province, China. Wuhan city is a major transportation hub with a population of more than 11 million people. Most of the patients visited a local fish and wild animal market last month. At a national press conference held today, Dr Jianguo Xu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who led a scientific team announced that a new‐type coronavirus, tentatively named by World Health Organization as the 2019‐new coronavirus (2019‐nCoV), had caused this outbreak. 1
originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: MPoling
I did. May 21, 2019. About died
Emergency worker. Dropped 100 lbs. Now, all good...2 Pfizers...but a lot of us then had this weird "flu"...