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> because at that time the virus wasn't supposed to have arrived here I heard that’s why several countries denied testing initially even when symptoms matched:
by oefrha 7y ago
> because at that time the virus wasn't supposed to have arrived here
I heard that’s why several countries denied testing initially even when symptoms matched: “you can’t have coronavirus because there’s no coronavirus in <country>.” Which is rather stupid considering <country> can’t “have” coronavirus if they just deny testing.
- pmiller2 7y ago> there's no coronavirus in <country>. Reminds me of stuff like "there are no gay people in $COUNTRY." [0] --- [0]: https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/asia/malaysia-tourism-minister-gay-denial-intl/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/asia/malaysia-tourism-ministe...
- tjansen 7y agoI just didn't feel bad enough to go to a doctor. Back then fever was still considered one of the symptoms, and I didn't have any. I should add that I live in Germany and our first major outbreak was in Heinsberg, not too far away from here, and my symptoms started about 4 days after being at the local kids carnival, the same kind of event that caused the outbreak in Heinsberg. On the other hand, only my kids got sick roughly at the same time, but no one I know had similar symptoms...
- flotzam 7y ago> Back then fever was still considered one of the symptoms, and I didn't have any. Wikipedia still lists fever as the most common symptom (87.9%), before dry cough (67.7%). But their data is from a middle of February WHO report. Is there a more recent list of symptom frequency? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Signs_and_symptoms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Signs...